Theology & Biblical Studies New Books Catalogue
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The Great Tradition Through Cultures, Continents and Centuries Steven D. Cone, Lincoln Christian University, USA & Robert F. Rea, Lincoln Christian University, USA
Approaches to Theological Ethics Sources, Traditions, Visions
Maureen Junker-Kenny, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
How did the Church originate, what is its story, and how did it come to exist the way it does in the present age? The answers to these questions form a tapestry of history that reaches from 1st century Palestine to the ends of the earth. This volume tells this rich story from an ecumenical perspective, drawing on both Eastern and Western historic sources and including the diversity of today’s voices. It also includes the most central source documents, so that readers may access the words of these great spiritual explorers for themselves.
This book offers an overview of sources and approaches in Christian Ethics. Part I treats its four sources and how they relate to other disciplines relevant for theology, such as biblical studies and hermeneutics, philosophy and the insights and issues arising in a scientific and technological culture. Part II compares current outlines of this theological discipline. Each approach or school is presented in its own theoretical framework and then analyzed according to criteria such as its selection of biblical sources, its internal theological consistency, and its ability to contribute to inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives.
UK September 2019 • US October 2019 • 768 pages • 429 bw illus PB 9780567673046 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9780567673060 • £95.00 / $128.00 Individual eBook 9780567673053 Library eBook 9780567673077 T&T Clark
UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 224 pages PB 9780567682956 • £24.99 / $33.95 • HB 9780567682963 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9780567682987 Library eBook 9780567682970 T&T Clark
Anglican Women Novelists
From Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James Edited by Judith Maltby, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK & Alison Shell, University College London, UK What do the women novelists Charlotte Brontë, Dorothy L. Sayers, Barbara Pym, Iris Murdoch and PD James all have in common? All of these writers shared a deep commitment to the Anglican church, and were both informed and influenced by the Christian message they found there. This edited collection of essays analyses the ways in which the Anglican church's teaching can be found in the creations of these writers, ranging from Charlotte M. Yonge's depiction of church authority, to Dorothy L. Sayers' advocacy of marital submission. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 288 pages • 13 illus PB 9780567686763 • £26.99 / $36.95 • HB 9780567665850 • £80.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9780567665874 Library eBook 9780567665867 T&T Clark
A Feminist Theology of Dieting Rethinking Salvation, Sin and WeightLoss Hannah Bacon, University of Chester, UK Bacon draws on qualitative research conducted inside one UK secular commercial weight loss group to show how Christian religious forms and theological discourses inform contemporary weightloss narratives. She asks what a specifically feminist theological response to weight loss might look like. If notions of sin and salvation service hegemonic discourses about fat, how might they be rethought to challenge fat phobia and the frenetic pursuit of thinness? While naming as 'sin' principles and practices which diminish women's appetites and bodies, this book gives theological expression to the conviction of many women in the group, that food and the body can be important sites of power, wisdom and transformation. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 384 pages PB 9780567659972 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9780567659958 • £90.00 / $122.00 Individual eBook 9780567659941 Library eBook 9780567659965 T&T Clark
Creation as Sacrament
Reflections on Ecology and Spirituality John Chryssavgis, Office of Ecumenical and Inter-Faith Affairs of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, USA John Chryssavgis explores the sacredness of the natural environment and the significance of creation in the rich theological history and spiritual experience of the Orthodox Church, through the lens of its unique ascetical, liturgical and mystical experience. By engaging with a wide variety of perspectives – theological, sacramental, historical and philosophical – he illustrates a characteristically Orthodox approach of care for our environment. The volume includes a foreword by the ‘Green Patriarch’ Bartholomew and ends with an afterword by the Eastern Orthodox metropolitan of Pergamon John Zizioulas. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 240 pages PB 9780567680709 • £18.99 / $25.95 • HB 9780567680716 • £60.00 / $82.00 Individual eBook 9780567680723 Library eBook 9780567680730 T&T Clark
Writing a Watertight Thesis
T H E O L O G Y / T & T C L A R K – Textbooks / Fe min is t T h e ology / S acra me n ts
A Global Church History
A Guide to Successful Structure and Defence Mike Bottery, University of Hull, UK & Nigel Wright, University of Hull, UK Writing a Watertight Thesis provides students with a framework for developing a sound structure for their thesis, which will ultimately make it watertight and defensible. The authors show that the key to making a thesis watertight lies in selecting the central research question and the sub-research questions that together collectively answer this main one. They draw on their extensive experience of supervising research students throughout, and include examples of how successful theses have been made watertight along with questions to enable readers to do the same thing to their own thesis. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 200 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350046948 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350046955 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781350046962 Library eBook 9781350046986 Bloomsbury Academic
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T H E O L O G Y / T & T C L A R K – Systema ti c Theol ogy
T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology The Doctrine of God
God's Being Toward Fellowship
Introducing the Big Questions John C. Peckham, Andrews University, USA This textbook provides a clear and concise overview of the issues involved in these and other questions and explores prominent contemporary approaches to the main issues relative to how to conceive of the God-world relationship within Christian theology. In so doing, this introductory, issues-focused, textbook on the doctrine of God surveys a range of live options regarding each of the primary questions, briefly considering where each falls within the spectrum of the Christian tradition and providing clear and readily understandable explanations of the technical issues involved. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 224 pages PB 9780567677846 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9780567677877 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9780567677853 Library eBook 9780567677860 T&T Clark
Theologies of Retrieval An Exploration and Appraisal
Edited by Darren Sarisky, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, UK "Sarisky’s Theologies of Retrieval is a significant and indispensable contribution to the central problem of theology: its relation to its historical past and tradition and its ability to retrieve in a creative way what is central to the ongoing life of Christian communities. Sarisky has assembled a top list of diverse theologians, who engage the main issues both historically and constructively. The book is a must read for anyone and any course interested in the Christian tradition and its retrieval." Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School, USA. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 268 pages PB 9780567688798 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567666796 Individual eBook 9780567666819 Library eBook 9780567666802 T&T Clark
Love, Divine and Human: Contemporary Essays in Systematic and Philosophical Theology
Edited by Jordan Wessling, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA, Oliver D. Crisp, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA & James M. Arcadi, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA This volume draws together a range of theologians and philosophers to contribute to current debates within the theology of love and to propose new avenues for future research. The essays are written from the perspective of or in conversation with analytic theology. Contributing essays deal with a rich variety of issues including divine transcendence and its methodological bearing on the doctrine of divine love, the nature and scope of divine love, the interrelation between God’s love and wrath, the plausibility of an impassible God of love, the application of various conceptions of divine love to the problem of divine hiddenness, love and ethics, love and human free will, amongst others. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 320 pages HB 9780567687739 • £95.00 / $130.00 Individual eBook 9780567687760 Library eBook 9780567687746 T&T Clark
Schleiermacher, Barth, and the Meaning of ‘God is Love’ Justin Stratis, Trinity College Bristol, UK
Justin Stratis explores the meaning of the biblical phrase ‘God is love’ through an examination of two quintessentially modern Protestant theologies. After considering the complexities of theological predication and juxtaposing several classical and contemporary approaches to the matter, the distinct approaches of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Karl Barth are presented and ultimately commended for their tendency to treat divine love as a ‘conclusion’ to the doctrine of God, rather than as a conceptual starting point. In contrast to many contemporary approaches, the thesis concludes by suggesting that God’s love is best conceived as his being toward fellowship, rather than as the eminent instance of loving fellowship understood according to human experiences of love (including that of being loved by God). UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 224 pages HB 9780567685575 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567685599 Library eBook 9780567685582 Series: T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology • T&T Clark
God as Sacrificial Love
A Systematic Exploration of a Controversial Notion Asle Eikrem, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Norway "This book insightfully explores intersection points of philosophy and theology within the wider landscape of sacrificial discourse. Eikrem provides a sophisticated articulation of the concepts of sacrifice which rightly belong to Christian concepts of God and ideals of human fulfillment, and a critical analysis of those concepts that emphatically do not. Scholarly readers will value this tightly argued study for its acute historical judgments, the breadth of its sources, and the ambition of its constructive systematic scope." S. Mark Heim,Yale Divinity School, USA UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 336 pages PB 9780567689474 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567678645 Individual eBook 9780567678669 Library eBook 9780567678652 Series: T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology • T&T Clark
Human Subjectivity 'in Christ' in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Theology Intergrating Simplicity and Wisdom Jacob Phillips Self-mediation is an ever-increasing feature of contemporary life, where one’s identity is frequently represented to oneself though digital technology. Bonhoeffer presents a radical challenge by maintaining that – from the perspective of Christian theology – there is something deeply negative about beholding representations of oneself. He holds that discipleship means adopting a posture of radical agnosticism toward one’s own identity. Phillips focuses on the interrelation of ‘simplicity’ and ‘reflection’ in theological cognition and ethical deliberation, showing a wider significance in contemporary theological anthropology, soteriology and ethics. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 256 pages HB 9780567688606 • £80.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9780567688620 Library eBook 9780567688613 Series: T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology • T&T Clark
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R. David Nelson, Independent Scholar, USA This volume offers an up-to-date introduction to Jüngel's intellectual formation, publications and influence. R. David Nelson guides the reader through the figures, movements and conceptual developments in the background of Jüngel's thought, introduces Jüngel’s major monographs and key essays, and assesses a number of themes prominent in Jüngel's theology. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 192 pages PB 9780567660039 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9780567660053 • £55.00 / $74.00 Individual eBook 9780567660046 Library eBook 9780567660022 Series: Guides for the Perplexed • T&T Clark
Essential Trinitarianism
Schleiermacher as Trinitarian Theologian Shelli M. Poe, Millsaps College, USA Poe advances the thesis that Schleiermacher is an authentically and creatively Trinitarian thinker, and that this is demonstrated above all in The Christian Faith. Poe proceeds by reading The Christian Faith backwards, starting with his explicit treatment of the doctrine of the Trinity in its conclusion, then treating the divine attributes exposited throughout the work in reverse order, and finally exploring its introduction. This is a fresh interpretation of Schleiermacher’s masterwork, showing current estimations of his doctrinal contributions to Christian theology and expanding the constructive theological possibilities within contemporary Trinitarian thought. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 216 pages PB 9780567687999 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567677082 Individual eBook 9780567677105 Library eBook 9780567677099 Series: T&T Clark Explorations in Reformed Theology • T&T Clark
T&T Clark Handbooks T&T Clark Handbook of African American Theology
Edited by Frederick L. Ware, Howard University School of Theology, Washington DC, USA, Antonia Michelle Daymond, Independent Scholar, USA & Eric Lewis Williams, Harvard University, USA Freedom, an important concept both in American culture and Christianity, is the central unifying theme of this volume. African American theology represents a Christian understanding of God’s freedom and the good news of God’s call for all humankind to enter life in genuine and just community that enables human flourishing. The essays in this volume examine black perspectives on Christian faith, enabling better understanding of the diversity of Christianity and Christian theology. The contributors to this volume, both established and emerging scholars, present views that shape the future of African American theology. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 400 pages HB 9780567675446 • £130.00 / $175.00 Individual eBook 9780567675453 Library eBook 9780567675460 Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark
T&T Clark Handbook of the Theology of Kierkegaard
Edited by David J. Gouwens, Brite Divinity School, USA & Aaron P. Edwards, Cliff College, UK Beginning with essays on key interpretive factors involved in approaching Kierkegaard's complex corpus, there are also historical accounts of his theological development, followed by – for the first time in a single volume – focused expositions of Kierkegaard's approach to particular doctrinal themes, from those oft-discussed in his work (e.g. Christology) to those more understated (e.g. Pneumatology). The book concludes with possible theological trajectories for Kierkegaard's thought in the 21st century. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 592 pages HB 9780567667076 • £130.00 / $176.00 Individual eBook 9780567667083 Library eBook 9780567667090 Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark
T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and Climate Change Edited by Hilda P. Koster, Concordia College, USA & Ernst M. Conradie, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Examines the central questions and themes laying at the heart of serious ethical challenge facing life on this planet today. The volume explores a wide variety of issues: anthropogenic climate change, possibilities of common moral ground without seeking to occupy the moral high ground, discussion between a wide variety of Christian tradition (Orthodox, Anglican, Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Pentecostal), the ways in which the story of God’s work is told, essays on the Christian faith in God as Father, Son and Spirit. The contributing essays are written by the leading scholars from USA, South Africa and Europe, as well as Asia and South America.
T H E O L O G Y / T & T C L A R K – Systemati c T h e ology
Jüngel: A Guide for the Perplexed
UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 592 pages HB 9780567675156 • £130.00 / $176.00 Individual eBook 9780567675163 Library eBook 9780567675170 T&T Clark
T&T Clark Handbook of Political Theology
Rubén Rosario Rodríguez, Saint Louis University, USA The T&T Clark Handbook of Political Theology is a comprehensive reference resource informed by serious theological scholarship in the three Abrahamic traditions. The engaging and original contributions within this collection represent the cream of the crop of contemporary scholarship in theology, religion, philosophy, history, law and political science from leading scholars in their area of specialization. Together with a glossary and an annotated bibliography, this companion features the most current overview of political theology to reach a broader, global audience of students and scholars. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 704 pages HB 9780567670397 • £130.00 / $176.00 Individual eBook 9780567670410 Library eBook 9780567670403 Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark
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T H E O L O G Y / T & T C L A R K – Theol ogi c a l Ethi c s
T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics Communities of Restoration
Ecclesial Ethics and Restorative Justice Thomas Noakes-Duncan, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand By bringing together the insights of ecclesial ethics with the theory and practice of restorative justice this book shows why a theological account of the theory and practice of restorative justice is fruitful for articulating and clarifying the witness of the church, especially when faced with conflict or wrongdoing. This can help extend the church’s imagination as to how it might better become God’s community of restoration as it reflects on the ways in which the justice of God is taking shape in its own community. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 288 pages PB 9780567688002 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567671530 Library eBook 9780567671547 Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark
Logics of War
The Problem of Mediation in Contemporary Ethics of Violent Force Therese Feiler, University of Oxford, UK
Andrew Errington, Charles Sturt University, Australia
David Errington brings the Book of Proverbs into discussion with two significant accounts of the nature and foundation of practical reason in Christian ethics: Thomas Aquinas and Oliver O’Donovan. The volume’s central thesis is that the way the Book of Proverbs conceives of wisdom presents an important challenge to the way practical reason has been understood in the Western theological and philosophical tradition. Rather than being a perfection of speculative knowledge, in the Book of Proverbs wisdom is a practical knowledge of how to act well, grounded in the reality of the world God has made. UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 240 pages HB 9780567687692 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9780567687722 Library eBook 9780567687708 Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark
Responsive Becoming: Moral Formation in Theological, Evolutionary, and Developmental Perspective
The modern ethics of war is a field of disparate, competing voices based on often unexplored theological assumptions and metaphysical implications. Therese Feiler approaches them from the borderline area between philosophical theology and religious studies, testing whether they offer a meaningful, practical logic of reconciliation. With reference to Hegel’s and others’ ‘theo–logic’ that negotiates Christ’s mediation and immanent dialectics, the logic of mediation is identified as the core concern of political ethics. Feiler unites five representative authors from now disparate strands of contemporary just war ethics, testing their conceptual logic of mediation: a sovereign realist and a cosmopolitan idealist; a rationalist individualist defending terrorism, and a Hegelian Christian ethicist.
This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of Reformed sanctification and human development, providing the foundation for a constructive account of Christian moral formation that is attentive both to divine grace and to the significance of natural, embodied processes. Angela Carpenter’s argument also addresses the impressions that such theologies give; namely either solitude in the face of adversity, or sheer passivity.
UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 224 pages HB 9780567678287 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9780567678300 Library eBook 9780567678294 Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark
UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 200 pages HB 9780567685964 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567685971 Library eBook 9780567685988 Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark
Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics
Elizabeth Agnew Cochran, Duquesne University, USA "As he walked to the guillotine in Edinburgh in May 1661, Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, with whose fate Presbyterianism was intertwined, calmly remarked, ‘I die not as a Roman braving death but as a Christian without being affrighted’. Elitist, cognitive and austere, this striking avowal illustrates an unexpected and deep interplay between Protestant moral character and aspects of Roman stoicism, not least in their broad belief in providence and account of human emotional life. This is an original, valuable and illuminating account." Iain R. Torrance, President Emeritus of Princeton Theological Seminary, USA. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 232 pages PB 9780567689160 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567671356 Individual eBook 9780567671370 Library eBook 9780567671363 Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark
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Every Good Path: Wisdom and Practical Reason in Christian Ethics and the Book of Proverbs
Angela Carpenter, Hope College, USA
Theological Neuroethics
Christian Ethics Meets the Science of the Human Brain Neil Messer, University of Winchester, UK "Messer convincingly demonstrates how a theological exploration of neuroethical issues can benefit not only theology in its engagement with neuroscientific knowledge, but also neuroscience in the broadening of its epistemic horizons […] He provides extensive analysis of current key issues arising in neuroscience and neurology, and offers a theological examination that could surprise many, especially those who might be skeptical about the contribution of theology to neuroethics. Those interested in neuroethics beyond the limited scope of its contemporary version will find this volume eye opening and unique in its merging of theology and brain science." Fabrice Jotterand, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 224 pages PB 9780567688019 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567671394 Individual eBook 9780567671400 Library eBook 9780567671417 Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics • T&T Clark
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Paul Avis, Anglican Communion Office, London, UK
Did Jesus ‘found’ the Christian Church? Did he want there to be a Church that would continue his work? How should we understand the equivocal answer that modern scholarship gives to that question? What then is the true foundation of the Church? What is the role of the gospel in that and what of the Reformers’ teaching that the Church is the creation of the word? Or does ‘the Eucharist make the Church’? The central theme of the book is the relationship between the Church and Christ, the Church and the gospel, the Church and the Kingdom. Jesus Christ, crucified and risen, is the sole foundation of the Church, but he cannot be without his people. UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 160 pages HB 9780826441669 • £60.00 / $82.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Between Congregation and Church
Denomination and Christian Life Together Barry A. Ensign-George, Presbyterian Church, USA Offers a constructive theological understanding of denomination, showing its role as an intermediary structure between congregation and church, and placing it within the doctrine of the church. Ensign-George highlights particular developments in the history of the church that established preconditions for the emergence of denomination, yet observes how it has often been used as a vehicle for sin. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 384 pages PB 9780567689153 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567658340 Individual eBook 9780567658357 Library eBook 9780567658364 T&T Clark
Sexual Difference, Gender, and Agency in Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics Faye Bodley-Dangelo, Harvard Theological Review, USA
The Lambeth Conference
Theology, History, Polity and Purpose Edited by Paul Avis, Anglican Communion Office, London, UK & Benjamin M. Guyer, University of Kansas, USA "As Lambeth 2020 gets closer, this book is an excellent contribution to preparations for the Conference, anchoring it in the tradition of its predecessors and analysing not only where the Conference has been but where it may go in the future." Ecclesiastical Law Journal UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 400 pages PB 9780567689177 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567662316 Individual eBook 9780567662323 Library eBook 9780567662330 T&T Clark
Karl Barth: Post-Holocaust Theologian?
Edited by George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA The contributors examine numerous topics: the extent to which Barth's theology compares favourably with recent post-Holocaust theologies, Barth’s position on the Jews during the Third Reich, his critique of the German-Christian Völkish church on ethical grounds. The discussion tackles Barth's dialectical "Yes" to Israel’s christological "No", it unpacks his ground-breaking exegesis of Rom. 9-11; and examines Barth’s rejection of the 1933 Aryan Law that formed the basis for excluding baptized Jews from Christian communities during the Third Reich. The essays also examine Barth’s later worries about Nostra Aetate, Vatican II’s landmark "Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-christian Religions". UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 184 pages PB 9780567689986 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567677051 Individual eBook 9780567677075 Library eBook 9780567677068 T&T Clark
T H E O L O G Y / T & T C L A R K – Ec c l i esi ol ogy / Political T h e ology
Theological Foundations of the Christian Church
T&T Clark Handbook of Edward Schillebeeckx
Edited by Stephan van Erp, KU Leuven, Belgium & Daniel Minch, KU Leuven, Belgium
This volume is a critical and constructive analysis of the sexually differentiated self in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatic. It secures in his Christocentric pattern of human agency an untapped resource for unsettling and reimagining the heteropatriarchal structure of human fellowship at the heart of his theological anthropology. Moving through Barth’s doctrines of revelation, creation, theological anthropology, and special ethics, Faye Bodley-Dangelo locates the human agent in his broader project aimed at re-habilitating the subject of modern protestant theology.
Schillebeeckx's thought was deeply rooted in Thomist metaphysics, which he brought into dialogue with the existential phenomenonolgy of his time. Together with contemporaries Yves Congar, Karl Rahner and Marie-Dominique Chenu, Schillebeeckx played a key role in the preparations for the theology of the Second Vatican Council. This Companion offers the first overview of all the historical, philosophical, political and theological aspects of his work.
UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 224 pages HB 9780567679307 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567679321 Library eBook 9780567679314 Series: T&T Clark Explorations in Reformed Theology • T&T Clark
UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 464 pages HB 9780567662439 • £130.00 / $176.00 Individual eBook 9780567662446 Library eBook 9780567662453 Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark
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T H E O L O G Y / T & T C L A R K – Hi stori c al Theol ogy / Contempora ry Theol ogy
Radical Revelation
Balázs M. Mezei, Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Hungary "This book utilizes what is best in phenomenology, hermeneutics and culturalpolitical modes of philosophy, while showing familiarity with analytic philosophy. Undoubtedly erudite, unquestionably methodologically sophisticated to the nth degree, in the end the book is entirely original and offers a breath taking synthetic performance, opening up an extraordinarily hospitable relation between philosophy and theology." Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame, USA. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 384 pages PB 9780567688781 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567677785 Individual eBook 9780567677808 Library eBook 9780567677792 Series: Illuminating Modernity • T&T Clark
Matthew Henry: The Bible, Prayer, and Piety A Tercentenary Celebration
Edited by Paul Middleton, University of Chester, UK & Matthew A. Collins, University of Chester, UK Matthew Henry (1662–1714) is arguably the best known English expositor of the Bible mainly due to his massive 6-volume Exposition of the Old and New Testaments. This volume brings together historians, biblical scholars, and theologians, who explore the context in which Henry worked, his contribution to the interpretation of the Bible in the early 18th century, and his legacy up to the present day. Among the contributors are notable scholars such as Jeremy Gregory, Clyde Binfield, Christine Helmer Ligon Duncan, George Brooke, Loveday Alexander, Stuart Weeks and Philip Alexander.
Donald MacKinnon's Theology
To Perceive Tragedy Without the Loss of Hope Andrew Bowyer, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK Bowyer outlines MacKinnon’s contribution and context, as well as characterising his work as a form of "therapeutic" moral philosophy that combines a call for intense self-awareness together with a commitment to realist notions of moral "factuality". Bowyer examines the key influences on MacKinnon’s thought, his focus on Christology, his engagement with literature and literary criticism, as well as his response to Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. This volume offers an appreciation of his contribution and a critique of his legacy. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 224 pages HB 9780567681249 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9780567681287 Library eBook 9780567681256 Series: T&T Clark Studies in English Theology • T&T Clark
The History of Monasticism The Eastern Tradition John Binns Despite its rich history in the Latin tradition, Christian monasticism began in the east; the wellsprings of monastic culture and spirituality can be directly sourced from the third-century Egyptian wilderness. In this volume John Binns creates a vivid, authoritative account that traces the four main branches of eastern Christianity, up to and beyond the Great Schism of 1054 and the break between the Catholic and Orthodox churches. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 304 pages • 19 b&w illus, 2 maps HB 9781788317610 • £40.00 / $55.00 Individual eBook 9781786725936 Library eBook 9781786735935 T&T Clark
UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 272 pages • 6 bw illus HB 9780567670212 • £90.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9780567670236 Library eBook 9780567670229 T&T Clark
Sport and Christianity
Practices for the Twenty-First Century Edited by Matt Hoven, University of Alberta, Canada, Andrew Parker, University of Gloucestershire, UK & Nick J. Watson, Youth Trust, UK This book explores the potential of sports and challenges readers to consider how it relates to their deepest passions, behaviours and actions. Written in an accessible and stimulating way, this edited collection provides newcomers to the field with a framework around which to think seriously about the way in which sports participation and faith-based values connect. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 240 pages HB 9780567678607 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567678621 Library eBook 9780567678614 T&T Clark
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The Persistence of God's Endangered Promises The Bible's Unified Story
Allan J. McNicol, Austin Graduate School of Theology, USA Using a thorough, integrated biblical theology to make sense of the ‘master story‘ of Scripture, Allan J. McNicol explores the nature and importance of the Bible‘s abiding narrative of the persistence of God‘s promises to his people, and their hope of final triumph. Special attention is given to the often contentious claim that these early followers of Jesus presumed that they stood in full continuity with Israel, the historic people of God, and were claiming that many of God’s promises were coming to fulfilment among them. McNicol presents a closer analysis of the texts as he shows how the theme of the people of God fits into the wider literary productions of these major New Testament writers. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 248 pages PB 9780567689214 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567677587 Individual eBook 9780567677617 Library eBook 9780567677594 T&T Clark
The Brahmin and his Bible
Rammohun Roy’s Precepts of Jesus 200 Years On R. S. Sugirtharajah, University of Birmingham, UK Sugirtharajah examines Roy's rewriting of the gospels, which controversially discarded miracles, supernatural events and historical narratives and focused only on the ethical principles of Jesus. Roy’s Precepts are included in full, together with analysis of the social, cultural and political context out of which they emerged, and the hermeneutical issues that the controversy generated. The volume also displays Roy’s work as a precursor to demythologising which the West took up later, and examines how his Asiatic Jesus was embraced by later Indian writers. Further, Sugirtharajah draws lessons from this 19th century colonial religious controversy for a postcolonial world. UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 224 pages HB 9780567685681 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567685711 Library eBook 9780567685698 T&T Clark
A Biblical Theology of Women
M. Sydney Park, Beeson Divinity School, USA M. Sydney Park explores exegetically and theologically the importance of women in Scripture within the framework of evangelical theology. Park uses the Pauline writings as her starting point, examining them within the context of the rest of the canon and together with key female figures in both the Old and New Testaments. Park shows that Paul's perspective on women cannot be given exclusive authority over nor excluded from productive dialogue with further canonical writings, showing that the biblical chronicle of women discloses a critical theological role, distinct from but not incoherent to their male counterparts in salvation history.
Isaiah 6-12
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary H.G.M. Williamson, University of Oxford, UK This eagerly anticipated volume is the second installment in H.G.M. Williamson's International Critical Commentary on first Isaiah. For over one hundred years International Critical Commentaries have had a special place among works on the Bible. They bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis – linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological – to help the reader understand the meaning of the books of the Old and New Testaments. Williamson continues in this tradition, adding this volume on Isaiah 6-12 to his already published volume on Isaiah 1-5. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 808 pages PB 9780567689993 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567030597 Library eBook 9780567679284 Series: International Critical Commentary • T&T Clark
Exodus 1-10
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary Graham I. Davies Graham I. Davies provides his long-awaited commentary on the first ten chapters of the second book of the Torah in this in-depth engagement with Exodus chapters 1-10. The commentary focuses on all the linguistic, philological, historical and literary aspects of this core text in the Pentateuch and examines the history of secondary scholarship on these chapters in the immense level of depth expected of an ICC volume. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 672 pages HB 9780567688682 • £75.00 / $100.00 Library eBook 9780567688699 Series: International Critical Commentary • T&T Clark
Exodus 11-18
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary Graham I. Davies This volume continues from Graham I. Davies commentary on Exodus 1-10. Davies brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help the reader understand the texts at hand. In addition to the parting of the waters and the defeat of Pharoah’s army the chapters commented upon also include the so-called ‘Song of the Sea’ in Exodus 15 and the provision of manna in the desert. The textual issues are varied and Davies navigates them deftly, providing close commentary and profound insights into these well-known texts. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 672 pages HB 9780567688712 • £75.00 / $100.00 Library eBook 9780567688729 Series: International Critical Commentary • T&T Clark
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International Critical Commentary
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Psalms Book 2: An Earth Bible Commentary "As a Doe Groans"
Arthur Walker-Jones, University of Winnipeg, Canada Arthur Walker-Jones presents an earth-focused reading of the second book of Psalms by focusing upon the many non-human animals that appear repeatedly in the Psalms. Walker-Jones looks at foxes, sheep, goats, cattle, doves, snakes, lions, snails, and dogs, which all appear in Psalm 42-72, taking into account that many of these animals co-evolved with humans and created the particular ecological niche of the highlands east of the Mediterranean. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 192 pages HB 9780567676283 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567689429 Library eBook 9780567676290 Series: Earth Bible Commentary • T&T Clark
'...And So They Went Out'
The Lives of Adam and Eve as Cultural Transformative Story Daphna Arbel, University of British Columbia, Canada, J.R.C. Cousland, University of British Columbia, Canada & Dietmar Neufeld, University of British Columbia, Canada This book sets out to redress the imbalance of study on reshaping and transformation of the stories within the "Books of Adam and Eve" by focusing primarily upon conceptual, literary, and thematic issues. By making use of contemporary critical methods such as literary-critical analysis, ritual theory, and social-scientific taxonomy, the book explores how these stories represent a profound transformation and reshaping of ancient attitudes to gender, body, sexuality, sin, social hierarchies, and human aspirations. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 208 pages PB 9780567688347 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567026798 T&T Clark
The Five Scrolls Texts @ Contexts
Edited by Athalya Brenner-Idan, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Gale A. Yee, Episcopal Divinity School, USA & Archie C.C. Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong In this collection, scholars from diverse geographical locations revisit a cluster of five biblical texts: Ruth, Song of Songs, Qoheleth, Lamentations and Esther. The volume presents various viewpoints and contexts—geographical, communal, religious, social, economical and ethical. Matching scholarship with social awareness, the contributors keep asking themselves and their readers a dual-faced question: how does our life context influence our scholarly and non-scholarly readings of the Bible, and how does reading the Bible critically influence our life?
Sacrifice in Pagan and Christian Antiquity Robert J. Daly, Boston College, USA
Robert J. Daly examines sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world, showing how the rise of Christian sacrifice – which was unbloody – and the use of sacrificial language in reference to highly spiritualized Christian lives, would have seemed unsettling and radically challenging to the pagan mind. He outlines the pagan trajectory, and then the Jewish-Christian trajectory, before concluding with a representative series of comparisons and contrasts (prayer and sacrifice; divination and sacrifice; ethics, morality, and sacrifice; the purpose of sacrifice; the rhetoric of sacrifice; the economics of sacrifice; heroes and saints). UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 192 pages HB 9780567687050 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9780567687029 Library eBook 9780567687043 T&T Clark
Jeremiah Under the Shadow of Duhm A Critique of Poetic Form as a Criterion Authenticity Joseph M. Henderson, Biola University, USA Henderson argues against a basic assumption of modern Jeremiah scholarship: that poetic form indicates authenticity. Henderson shows how this assumption, introduced by Bernhard Duhm (1901) is shown to be founded on the Romantic identification of prophecy and poetry pioneered by Robert Lowth (1753). Further Henderson outlines how Duhm’s assumption allowed him to create a biography of Jeremiah that closely resembles a Romantic Bildungsroman and to bring the book into conformity with a reconstruction of Israel’s religious history rooted in Romantic historicism. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 336 pages HB 9780567676467 • £100.00 / $136.00 Individual eBook 9780567676436 Library eBook 9780567676443 T&T Clark
Abraham in Jewish and Early Christian Literature Edited by Sean A. Adams, University of Glasgow, UK & Zanne Domoney-Lyttle
The figure of Abraham has been extensively discussed in Jewish and Early Christian Literature. This collection of essays follows the impact of Abraham across biblical texts, including the Pseudigrapha and Apocrypha into early Greek, Latin and Gnostic literature. The essays also turn a spotlight onto those Abrahamic texts that have yet to receive scholarly attention. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 224 pages HB 9780567675521 • £85.00 / $115.00 Library eBook 9780567675538 Series: The Library of Second Temple Studies • T&T Clark
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Series Editors: Andrew Mein, University of Cambridge, UK and Claudia V. Camp, Texas Christian University, USA Over the last 40 years this pioneering series has established an unrivaled reputation for cutting-edge international scholarship in biblical studies and has attracted leading authors and editors in the field. The series takes many original and creative approaches to its subjects, including innovative work from historical and theological perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and more recent developments in cultural studies and reception history. For more information and a full series listing, please visit: www.bloomsbury.com/series/the-library-of-hebrew-bibleold-testament-studies
Characters and Characterization in 1 and 2 Samuel Edited by Keith Bodner, Crandall University, New Brunswick,Canada & Benjamin J.M. Johnson
This multi-authored volume provides many different entry points to the many and various characters in the books of Samuel. All the major characters are examined in-depth, and chapters also focus on the interpretative function of characters more generally in the text, and on what characters can tell us about Samuel's composition. In addition to chapters on – among others – David, Jonathan, Saul, Eli and Hannah chapters also assess the role of more incidental figures in the narrative. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 288 pages HB 9780567680860 • £85.00 / $114.00 Library eBook 9780567680877 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Bodies, Embodiment, and Theology of the Hebrew Bible
Edited by S. Tamar Kamionkowski & Wonil Kim "The focus of this volume is the appropriate reading lens for interpretation of embodiment language, with regard to God and to human beings, in the Hebrew Bible. The chapters explore the subject of the complex anthropomorphisms in the biblical books, with relation to God’s biblical bodies, human biblical bodies, divine bodies, human bodies, and today’s reader. The volume combines a desire to discuss overarching issues about the use of the human form within biblical theology with attention to specific texts and topics relevant to the study of the Hebrew Bible." Journal of Theological Studies UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 272 pages PB 9780567688309 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567547996 Library eBook 9780567212634 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Persian Royal–Judaean Elite Engagements in the early Teispid and Achaemenid Empire The King’s Acolytes
Jason M. Silverman, University of Helsinki, Finland Jason Silverman presents a timely and necessary study, advancing the understanding of Achaemenid ideology and Persian Period Judaism. While the Achaemenid Persian Empire (c. 550–330 BCE) dwarfed all previous empires of the Ancient Near East in both size and longevity, the royal system that forged and preserved this civilisation remains only rudimentarily understood, as is the imperial and religious legacy bequeathed to future generations. In response to this deficit, Silverman provides a critically sophisticated and interdisciplinary model for comparative studies. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 272 pages • 11 bw illus HB 9780567688538 • £85.00 / $115.00 Library eBook 9780567688545 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Sin of the Calf
The Rise of the Bible's Negative Attitude Toward the Golden Calf Youn Ho Chung An examination of the background and factors which motivated negative attitudes towards the Golden Calf, and a consideration of how this previously positive (or neutral) image became negative. Chung provides insight into when the prohibition of images in Israelite religion became crystallized and how this was indispensable in the proclamation of the monotheism of YHWH. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 256 pages PB 9780567688323 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567425904 Library eBook 9780567212313 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Corporate Responsibility in the Hebrew Bible Joel S. Kaminsky
In this classic study, presented in paperback for the first time, Kaminsky explores a variety of biblical texts in order to clarify and better understand the relationship between the individual and the community in ancient Israel. Although much of the argument is focused upon Deuteronomy and the deuteronomistic history, other pentateuchal and prophetic texts are also probed. In particular, certain instances of divine retribution that are corporate in nature are explored, and it is argued that such punishments are quite common and completely understandable of the basic theological ideas that are operative in such cases.
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The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies continued Disloyalty and Destruction
Religion and Politics in Deuteronomy and the Modern World Rob Barrett The goal of the work is a heuristic reading strategy for a modern reader to engage with YHWH's threats against Israel in Deuteronomy. First, the biblical text is considered through close reading to discern the logic of YHWH's threats: what motivates the threats, what form the threats take, and what effect the threats expect to produce. Second, a modern analogy is sought that most helpfully matches the structure and logic observed in the biblical text. The threats of the modern state against those who threaten it are found to bear significant resemblance. Finally, this analogy is developed for each of several significant passages of Deuteronomy. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 304 pages PB 9780567689658 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567614148 Library eBook 9780567554871 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Family in Life and in Death: The Family in Ancient Israel Sociological and Archaeological Perspectives Edited by Patricia Dutcher-Walls This book presents essays on topics related to the living family and its social and material patterns as well as topics about family structures related to ancestors and the dead in ancient Israel. Specifically, the essays examine the cult of the dead, configurations of family house structures, and family relational interactions. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 160 pages • 1 illus PB 9780567690128 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567027573 Library eBook 9780567000088 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The 'Way of the LORD' in the Book of Isaiah Bo H. Lim
Lim examines what the "way of the LORD" is in the book of Isaiah. Lim assesses Walter Zimmerli's proposal that the "way" in Second Isaiah is a literal and physical highway extending from Babylon to Jerusalem only to be reinterpreted as a spiritual, metaphorical, and pious way of living in Third Isaiah. Lim defines each mention of the "way" in Isaiah and provides a coherent interpretation of this theme's theological significance within the book. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 224 pages PB 9780567688316 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567027634 Library eBook 9780567448811 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Fate of Justice and Righteousness during David's Reign
Narrative Ethics and Rereading the Court History according to 2 Samuel 8:15-20:26 Richard G. Smith This work argues that 2 Sam 8:15-20:26 is a literary unit designed to show how David and his house failed to establish "justice and righteousness" during David's reign over all Israel. After an introductory chapter and a chapter on critical methodology the rest of the work is a close reading of 2 Sam 8:15-20:26 that pays special attention to narrative ethics. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 294 pages PB 9780567689276 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567026842 Library eBook 9780567008633 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity Dermot Anthony Nestor
Nestor breaks new ground in the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, Nestor corrects the pronounced tendency towards ‘analytical groupism' in the academic literature. Challenging what Pierre Bourdieu has called ‘our primary inclination to think the world in a substantialist manner,' Nestor seeks to break with the vernacular categories and ‘commonsense primordialisms' encoded within the Biblical texts, whilst at the same time accounting for their tenacious hold on our social and political imagination. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 288 pages PB 9780567688354 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567012975 Library eBook 9780567468000 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Biblical Narratives, Archaeology and Historicity Essays In Honour of Thomas L. Thompson
Edited by Emanuel Pfoh & Lukasz NiesiolowskiSpanò This volume collects essays from an international body of leading scholars in Old Testament studies, focused upon the key concepts of the question of historicity of biblical stories, the archaeology of Israel/Palestine during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the nature of biblical narrative and related literature. Presenting an interdisciplinary analysis of the historical issues concerning ancient Israel/Palestine, this volume creates an updated body of reference to fifty years’ worth of scholarship. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 288 pages HB 9780567686565 • £85.00 / $114.00 Library eBook 9780567686572 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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Edited by Jeremiah W. Cataldo, Grand Valley State University, USA
This volume introduces readers to the study of cultural memory and identity in relation to the Hebrew Bible, and sets up strategies for connecting studies of the historical contexts and literature of the Bible to parallel issues in the present day. Each contribution focuses on social, economic, or political issues that have significantly shaped or influenced dominant elements of cultural memory and the construction of identity in the biblical texts. Together the contributions show how the biblical texts as a whole present a collective desire to reshape the social-political world. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 208 pages HB 9780567683519 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567689801 Library eBook 9780567683502 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Dissonance and the Drama of Divine Sovereignty in the Book of Daniel Amy C. Merrill Willis
This study of the book of Daniel examines the ideology of divine and human rule in Daniel's historical resumes found in chapters 2, 7, 8, 9, 10-12. It uncovers the concerns that motivate the resumes and the strategies they use to resolve cognitive and experiential dissonance. Willis argues that the source of dissonance in Daniel stems not from failed prophecies (as has been commonly argued), nor do the visions function as symbolic theodicies. Rather, Willis argues, the historical resumes address profound contradictions concerning divine power and presence in the face of Hellenistic/ Seleucid rule. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 240 pages PB 9780567688842 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567379481 Library eBook 9780567558152 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
From Law to Prophecy
Ezekiel's Use of the Holiness Code Michael A. Lyons This work examines text-referencing practices and ideas about sacred texts in antiquity. This book shows how Ezekiel, an ancient Israelite author, borrowed from and transformed an earlier text containing religious instruction. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 240 pages PB 9780567690104 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567027252 Library eBook 9780567634597 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Transformation of Biblical Proper Names Joze Krasovec
An exploration of the various transformations of biblical proper names in different textual traditions. Krasovec shows that the forms of biblical proper names are much more stable and consistent in the Hebrew Bible than in Greek, Latin and other ancient Bible translations. This, he argues, indicates that Greek and Latin translators and copyists were in general not fluent in Hebrew and did therefore not have sufficient support in a living Hebrew phonetic context. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 176 pages PB 9780567688927 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567452245 Library eBook 9780567429902 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Expect the Unexpected
Aspects of Pragmatic Foregrounding in Old Testament Narratives Stefano Cotrozzi This work on biblical linguistics is a highly specialized, pragmatic investigation of the controversial question of "foregrounding"—the deviation from some norm or convention—in Old Testament narratives. The author presents and examines the two main sources of pragmatic foregrounding: 1) events or states deviating from well-established schemata, structures of reader expectation that can be manipulated by the narrator to highlight specific "chunks" of discourse; and 2) evaluative devices, which are used by the narrator to indicate to the reader the point of the story and direct its interpretation. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 320 pages PB 9780567688330 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567568380 Library eBook 9780567574817 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Dress and Clothing in the Hebrew Bible
"For All Her Household Are Clothed in Crimson" Edited by Antonios Finitsis Built upon the flourishing study of costume, this book analyses sartorial evidence provided both by texts of the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible. The essays within lend shape and texture to the connection between the material and the ideological, examining the tradition of dress, the different types of literature that feature descriptions and references to the tradition of garments, and the people for whom this literature was written.
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Imagined Worlds and Constructed Differences in the Hebrew Bible
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The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies continued Women and Exilic Identity in the Hebrew Bible Edited by Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor, University of Virginia, USA & Katherine E. Southwood, University of Oxford, UK
Notions of women as found in the Bible have had an incalculable impact on western cultures, influencing perspectives on marriage, kinship, legal practice, political status, and general attitudes. Women and Exilic Identity is drawn from three separate strands to address and analyse this phenomenon. The first examines how women were conceptualized and represented during the exilic period. The second focuses on methodological possibilities and drawbacks connected to investigating women and exile. The third reviews current prominent literature on the topic, with responses from authors. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 192 pages PB 9780567689191 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567668424 Individual eBook 9780567668448 Library eBook 9780567668431 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Eschatology and Messianism in LXX Isaiah 1-12 Rodrigo F. de Sousa
An examination of the eschatological and messianic elements in the first twelve chapters of Septuagint (LXX) Isaiah. The first part of the book surveys the discussion of eschatology and messianism in LXX Isaiah and outlines the issues involved. In the second part, de Sousa analyses the rendering of the well-known messianic oracles of LXX Isaiah 1-12, namely, 7:14-16, 9:5(6)-6(7), and 11:1-5 and provides a close exegetical analysis of these passages, and a study of their immediate context. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 204 pages PB 9780567688903 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567258199 Library eBook 9780567553515 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Land and Calendar
The Priestly Document from Genesis 1 to Joshua 18 Philippe Guillaume Pg remains one of the last pillars of Pentateuch research, but its extent is debated. The 364-day perpetual calendar offers a reliable criterion to identify Pg within the final text of the Hexateuch. Pg is divided into seven periods, from creation to the entry of the sons of Israel in an empty land of Canaan. The festival calendar of Leviticus 23, and the Jubilee of Lev 25 constitute the heart of Pg. Bloodless atonement with no connection to any temple whatsoever, peaceful entry into the empty Promised Land, eternal sabbatical rhythm, are Pg's major theological characteristics. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 256 pages • 2 illus PB 9780567689689 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567322005 Library eBook 9780567401205 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Feminist Frameworks and the Bible
Power, Ambiguity, and Intersectionality Edited by L. Juliana Claassens, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa & Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale Divinity School, USA With contributors ranging across six different countries, including the USA, Germany, South Africa, Botswana, Nigeria and New Zealand, this volume presents incisive feminist and postcolonial interpretations of the Bible. All of the authors illustrate the academic frameworks they use to read the Old Testament. The conversation generated touches on the nature and significance of feminist biblical interpretation in our global context and includes reflections on the tropes of power, ambiguity and intersectionality. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 264 pages PB 9780567688088 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567671578 Individual eBook 9780567680068 Library eBook 9780567671585 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Conquering Character
The Characterization of Joshua in Joshua 1-11 Sarah Lebhar Hall "Hall's writing is clear and engaging, not burdened with impenetrable jargon but expounding the issues helpfully for the nonexpert and arguing persuasively for worthwhile conclusions... this work is an important contribution that no commentator on Joshua will be able to overlook." Journal of Theological Studies Hall presents a narrative treatment of the conquest accounts, with specific attention given to the characterization of Joshua. The method employed is eclectic, including poetic analysis, structural study, delimitation criticism, comparative literary analysis, and intertextual reading. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 256 pages PB 9780567688897 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567257031 Library eBook 9780567438751 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Characters and Characterization in 1 and 2 Kings Edited by Keith Bodner, Crandall University, New Brunswick, Canada & Benjamin J.M. Johnson
An examination of characters in the books of Kings showing how understanding and interpretation of key characters affects readings the story. The volume begins with more general pieces addressing how the study of characters can shed light on the composition history of Kings and on how characters and characterization can be considered with respect to ethics, particularly with respect to the moral complexity of biblical characters. Contributors then consider key characters within the Kings narrative in depth, such as Nathan, Bathsheba, Solomon and Jezebel. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 288 pages HB 9780567680907 • £85.00 / $114.00 Library eBook 9780567680914 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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Miracles and Manipulation
Roy L. Heller, Southern Methodist University, USA An examination of the dual characterization of Elijah and Elisha, contrasting their miraculous signs and wonders with troubling stories such as Elijah running from Jezebel and Elisha cursing the children who make fun of him. Heller argues that this dual characterization reflects an ambivalent attitude that the narrator of Kings has toward prophecy, and that this attitude is in turn reflected in the book of Deuteronomy. This shows that Deuteronomy’s opinion of prophecy is that it must always be evaluated in light of the clear and straightforward teaching of Deuteronomy itself. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 264 pages PB 9780567689580 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567679017 Library eBook 9780567679024 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Thus Says the LORD
Essays on the Former and Latter Prophets in Honor of Robert R. Wilson Edited by John J. Ahn & Stephen L. Cook This work assembles contributions from North America's leading Hebrew Bible/Old Testament scholars in honor of a highly respected biblical scholar, whose work on biblical prophets has been especially influential. Within the list are former teachers, current colleagues, and former students who are now colleagues in their own right, representing a wide range of denominational traditions, such as Roman Catholics, Lutheran, Episcopal, and Presbyterian. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 352 pages • 1 illus PB 9780567689320 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567178046 Library eBook 9780567283092 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Untamable Texts
Literary Studies and Narrative Theory in the Books of Samuel Greger Andersson, Örebro University, Sweden The prime and "unique" contribution of this study is the meta-theoretical approach according to which a popular method of analysis and interpretation regarding the books of Samuel is discussed and evaluated critically. Questions considered include "Do the texts of the Bible have forms that do not comply with the frames interpreters assume? What aims and agendas do literary or narrative methods serve in the hands of biblical interpreters?" The main goal of this study is to attempt a better understanding of the biblical texts and their influence and meaning. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 304 pages PB 9780567689306 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567520517 Library eBook 9780567298904 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Theophanic "Type-Scenes" in the Pentateuch Nevada Levi DeLapp, Calvin Christian Reformed Church, Iowa, USA
DeLapp identifies three distinct theophanic "typescenes" in the final form of the Pentateuch, which fit with the particular theological forms of the books in which they appear. In Genesis, theophany is related to a crisis or threat to the Abrahamic promise. In Exodus YHWH’s fiery presence in a communal setting is linked to preserving Israel as a people in preparation for the Abrahamic inheritance. In Leviticus this is augmented with a liturgical setting where priestly action brings about theophanic response. DeLapp then shows how Numbers and Deuteronomy re-read and re-tell these "type-scenes" to ensure that they are read appropriately. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 200 pages PB 9780567689603 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567679079 Library eBook 9780567679086 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Intertextuality of Zechariah 1-8 Michael R. Stead
Zechariah 1-8 is a deeply intertextual work which takes up formerly disparate streams of tradition - especially various elements of what it calls ‘the former prophets' - and creatively combines these traditions, in applying them to a post-exilic context. This fact means that Zechariah 1-8 is situated in a dual context - the literary context of ‘the former prophets', and the historical context of the early post-exilic period. This work seeks to understand Zechariah 1-8 in the light of its dual context. When Zechariah 1-8 is read in this way, a number of otherwise perplexing passages are made clearer, and the message of the work as a whole is better understood. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 336 pages PB 9780567690081 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567291721 Library eBook 9780567005823 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Flashes of Fire
A Literary Analysis of the Song of Songs Elie Assis This literary analysis of the Song of Songs employs the methods of New Criticism. Each analysis aims to uncover the messages conveyed by the poems and the inner world of the characters. The analysis brings to the fore the highly sophisticated and the original creativity of the love poetry of the Song of Songs. In the introduction, the question is posed as to whether the Song of Songs is an anthology or one literary whole. After discussing the strengths and weakness of the various approaches, the author proposes a novel structure for the Book predicated on the various genres of the love poems.
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The Characters of Elijah and Elisha and the Deuteronomic Evaluation of Prophecy
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The Hope For the House of David in the Book of Zechariah Anthony Robert Petterson This book investigates the nature of the hope for the house of David in the final form of the book of Zechariah. It focuses particularly on the following themes: the roles of Joshua and Zerubbabel; the nature and identity of the Shoot; the coming King; the Shepherd; and the Pierced One. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 304 pages PB 9780567689238 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567092151 Library eBook 9780567385949 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Water and Water-Related Phenomena in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature An Eco-Theological Exploration Kivatsi Jonathan Kavusa Kivatsi Jonathan Kavusa addresses a gap in the field of ecological readings of the Old Testament, presenting an exploration of the theme of water in the Wisdom books, including the often-ignored deuterocanonical corpus. Kavusa focuses on both the negative and positive potential of water, drawing in particular on four of the Earth Bible principles: intrinsic worth, interconnectedness, voice, and purpose. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 240 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9780567687272 • £85.00 / $115.00 Library eBook 9780567687289 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets Edited by Julia M. O'Brien & Chris Franke
This volume explores multiple dimensions of prophetic texts and their violent rhetoric, providing a rich and engaging discussion of violent images not only in prophetic texts and in ancient Near Eastern art but also in modern film and receptions of prophetic texts. The contributors addresses questions that are at once ancient and distressingly-modern: What do violent images do to us? Do they encourage violent behaviour and/or provide an alternative to actual violence? How do depictions of violence define boundaries between and within communities? What can and should readers make of the disturbing rhetoric of violent prophets? UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 208 pages • 5 illus PB 9780567688378 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567548115 Library eBook 9780567571427 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Art as Biblical Commentary
Visual Criticism from Hagar the Wife of Abraham to Mary the Mother of Jesus J. Cheryl Exum, Sheffield University, UK Drawing upon many years of experience in teaching 'The Bible and the Arts', J. Cheryl Exum explores the exegetical potential of Biblical depiction in the art of the Old Masters, and European painting from the early modern period, arguing for the contributions that such analysis can make to research, teaching and interdisciplinary potential. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 272 pages • 91 colour illus HB 9780567685186 • £100.00 / $136.00 Individual eBook 9780567687852 Library eBook 9780567685193 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale The Lost Seduction
Caroline Blyth, University of Auckland, New Zealand Caroline Blyth guides readers through an in-depth exploration of Delilah’s afterlives as femme fatale in both biblical interpretation and popular culture, tracing the social and historical factors that may have inspired them. Blyth considers alternative afterlives for Delilah’s character, using as inspiration both the Judges 16 narrative and a number of cultural texts which deconstruct traditional understandings of the femme fatale, thereby inviting readers to view this iconic biblical character in new and fascinating lights. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 208 pages • 16 bw illus PB 9780567688026 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567673121 Individual eBook 9780567680013 Library eBook 9780567673138 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies & Playing the Texts • T&T Clark
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Stephanie Day Powell, Manhattan College, USA Stephanie Day Powell illuminates the myriad forms of persuasion, inducement, discontent, and heartbreak experienced by readers of Ruth. Writing from a lesbian perspective, Powell draws upon biblical scholarship, contemporary film and literature, narrative studies, feminist and queer theories, trauma studies and psychoanalytic theory to trace the workings of desire that produced the book of Ruth and shaped its history of reception. Wrestling with the arguments for and against reading Ruth as a love story between women, Powell gleans new insights into the ancient world in which Ruth was written. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 224 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9780567690005 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567678751 Individual eBook 9780567682239 Library eBook 9780567678768 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies & Playing the Texts • T&T Clark
Musical Illuminations of Genesis Narratives Helen Leneman, Independent Scholar
Helen Leneman examines the stories of Genesis in music, showing how musical settings can illuminate many well-known biblical tales. Leneman studies oratorios, operas, and songs (and their librettos) to shed light on how Genesis has been understood and experienced over time. Whilst the book covers Genesis as a whole, it does not purport to be a comprehensive coverage of all musical uses of Genesis, but rather to present several of the more surprising and interesting musical settings, chiefly from the 19th century. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 320 pages • 11 bw illus PB 9780567688811 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567673732 Library eBook 9780567673749 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies & Scriptural Traces • T&T Clark
Extreme Literary Rewritings of the Bible Anthony Swindell, University of Chester, UK
An examination of ‘extreme’ literary rewritings of the bible, which traces how the bible has been adapted and rewritten in literature across time. The focus of the study is upon how literature can use and apply biblical motifs and styles without specifically re-telling a recognisable biblcal story, and yet at the same time, remain heavily influenced by the Bible. Swindell's study presents a broad sweep of such writings, from early medieval examples through to the work of Margaret Atwood. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 256 pages HB 9780567679420 • £85.00 / $114.00 Library eBook 9780567679437 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies & Scriptural Traces • T&T Clark
Hebrew Wordplay and Septuagint Translation Technique in the Fourth Book of the Psalter Elizabeth H. P. Backfish
This volume examines numerous Hebrew wordplays not identified and discussed in previous research, and the technique of the Masoretic translators, by offering another criterion of evaluation – essentially, their concern about the style of translating Hebrew into Greek. Elizabeth Backfish’s study analyzes seventy-four wordplays employed by the Hebrew poets of Psalms 90106, and how the Septuagint renders Hebrew wordplay in Greek. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 192 pages HB 9780567687104 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9780567689467 Library eBook 9780567687111 Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies & Texts and Versions of the Hebrew Bible • T&T Clark
Synoptic Perspectives
David in the Parallel Texts of SamuelKings and Chronicles Lydie Kucová This book compares and contrasts several parallel passages in the Hebrew Bible that relate to the David narratives. Beginning with a review of previous scholarly synopses of these passages, Kucová outlines the main characteristics of ancient texts that are significant for her study (Masoretic text, Dead Sea scrolls, Septuagint, Targums and Peshitta related to the books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles). She then compares the two separate accounts of David’s reign.
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Narrative Desire and the Book of Ruth
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Saint Thomas the Apostle: New Testament, Apocrypha, and Historical Traditions Johnson Thomaskutty, Union Biblical Seminary, India Thomaskutty investigates the development of literature surrounding the character/figure of Thomas the Apostle, from the earliest documents onward, examining and questioning the approaches and methodologies that have been employed in interpreting these documents. Thomaskutty analyzes the Thomas literature closely in order to understand the character, his mission involvements, and the possible implications this may have for understanding early Christianity in the East. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 280 pages PB 9780567690050 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567672841 Individual eBook 9780567680204 Library eBook 9780567672858 Series: Jewish and Christian Texts • T&T Clark
Paul and Rhetoric
Edited by J. Paul Sampley, Boston University, USA & Peter Lampe These chapters, by leaders in the field and in the topic, engage and represent modern scholarship on Paul and rhetorical studies. The contributors examine different types of rhetoric and rhetorical tropes and also look at how ancient epistolography, theology and rhetoric are related. The contributors include, Troy W. Martin, Duane Watson, J. Paul Sampley and Peter Lampe. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 288 pages PB 9780567688910 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567027047 Library eBook 9780567128621 T&T Clark
Numismatics, Greek Lexicography and the New Testament
The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries Memory and the Jesus Tradition Alan Kirk, James Madison University, USA
Research on memory has provoked debates about the significance of memory-based approaches for synoptic, Johannine, and historical Jesus scholarship. Alan Kirk shows how memory theory provides a defensible, comprehensive account of the tradition that forms the basis for further work on a range of problems in gospels scholarship. Kirk considers current analytical approaches to the phenomenon of memory, including cultural memory, social memory, and memory in its cognitive, neurobiological aspects, cognitive science and associated philosophy and integrates these to assess how aspects of memory may be useful in Jesus studies. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 320 pages PB 9780567690036 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567663467 Individual eBook 9780567680242 Library eBook 9780567663481 Series: The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries • T&T Clark
The Gospel of Tatian
Exploring the Nature and Text of the Diatessaron Edited by Matthew R. Crawford, Australian Catholic University, Australia & Nicholas J. Zola, Pepperdine University, USA Tatian’s Diatessaron has been claimed as both a vindication of the fourfold gospel’s canonical status in the second century and as an argument for its ongoing fluidity. In this volume leading textual scholars explore the status of Tatian’s work alongside received canonical texts. They question whether the Diatessaron was intended to become a gospel in it own right, comparable to other early Christian gospels, or whether it was simply intended to present the canonical gospels alongside each other. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 320 pages • 2 plates HB 9780567679888 • £95.00 / $128.00 Individual eBook 9780567679918 Library eBook 9780567679895 Series: The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries • T&T Clark
Michael P. Theophilos
Explores the fascinating variety of numismatic contributions to Greek lexicography, especially as they pertain to lexicographic studies of the Second Temple period in general, and New Testament in particular. Theophilos considers previous scholarly attempts to grapple with, and incorporate, critical numismatic material into the emerging discipline of Greek lexicography including foundational work by F. Preisigke and E. Kiessling and later studies by Oster and Kreitzer before outlining his own methodological approach. Theophilos’ then examines the resources available for engaging with the numismatic material, and presents a series of specific case studies throughout the New Testament material. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 288 pages • 76 bw illus HB 9780567674364 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567690227 Library eBook 9780567674371 T&T Clark
Theology of the Gospel of Mark A Semantic, Narrative, and Rhetorical Study of the Characterization of God Paul L. Danove, Villanova University, USA Paul L. Danove presents the first full-length study of God in the gospel of Mark. Danove's argument is threefold, beginning with a set of complementary semantic, narrative, and rhetorical methods for investigating characterization in the gospel. He then examines the narrative and semantic content related to the character of God (part 2), and in part 3 develops statements of the fifty-six repeated and sixty-two non-repeated actions and attributes of God within Mark’s gospel. The result is a complete study of God in the gospel of Mark suited for biblical scholars and (in particular) Roman Catholic and systematic theologians. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 240 pages HB 9780567684066 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567684103 Library eBook 9780567684073 T&T Clark
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God’s New Israel as the Pioneer of God’s New Humanity Herman C. Waetjen, San Francisco Theological Seminary, USA Waetjen examines the Jewish context and intertestamental literature behind the gospel of Matthew to present a construction of Matthew’s gospel which aims to let the reader 'experience' the gospel on its own terms. Waetjen presents Matthew as a 'book of Genesis' that introduces the New Testament, by letting it tell itself as a story of a Jewish male who is generated by God’s Spirit and brought to birth by a virgin who simultaneously is the mother of a new humanity and a new Israel. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 392 pages PB 9780567688033 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567675668 Individual eBook 9780567675699 Library eBook 9780567675675 T&T Clark
Paul as Pastor
Edited by Brian S. Rosner, Ridley College, Australia, Andrew S. Malone, Ridley College, Australia & Trevor J. Burke, Cambridge Theological Federation, UK This stimulating resource considers a hitherto neglected, but critical, dimension of Paul and his letters — the question of to what degree he behaved as and identified as a pastor. The contributors consider the household setting of Paul’s pastoral practice, the evidence of Acts and a survey of themes in each of the letters in the traditional Pauline corpus. Additionally, three chapters supply case studies of the Wirkungsgeschichte of Paul’s pastoral practice in the pastoral offices of the Anglican Communion in the denomination’s Ordinal, and in the lives and thought of Augustine of Hippo and George Whitfield. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 240 pages PB 9780567688835 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567677914 Individual eBook 9780567677945 Library eBook 9780567677921 T&T Clark
Reading the Figure of Paul with Roland Barthes Self-Narration in Romans, Corinthians and Philippians Scott S. Elliott Scott S. Elliot reconsiders the autobiographical statements peppered throughout the letters of Paul (e.g., Philippians 3:4b-6; Romans 7:14-25; Galatians 1:11-2:21) in light of the theoretical work of Roland Barthes. Elliot draws particularly on Barthes' later poststructuralist writings, many of which touch either directly or indirectly on self-narration (e.g., Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary, Camera Lucida, and A Lover's Discourse: Fragments). UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 224 pages HB 9780567676351 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567676382 Library eBook 9780567676368 T&T Clark
T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament
Edited by J. Brian Tucker, Moody Theological Seminary, USA & Aaron Kuecker, Trinity Christian College, USA The T&T Clark Social Identity Commentary highlights the ways in which the New Testament seeks to form the social identity of the earliest Christian movement. The commentary provides helpful overviews of each New Testament text, focusing on various social dimensions and providing outlines that offer a concise picture of each text as a work of social influence. The contributors draw on the resources of social anthropology, historical sociology, and social identity theory, and build on the combination of social history and social theory in order to bring to the fore often overlooked aspects of the New Testament.
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Matthew's Theology of Fulfillment, Its Universality and Its Ethnicity
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Irenaeus and Paul
Edited by Todd D. Still, Baylor University, USA & David E. Wilhite, Baylor University, USA In this volume the use of Paul’s writings is examined within the writings of Irenaeus of Lyon. Issues of influence, reception, theology and history are examined to show how Paul’s work influenced the developing theology of the early Church. The literary style of Paul’s output is also examined. The contributors to the volume represent leading lights of the study of Irenaeus, as well as respected names from the field of New Testament studies. UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 240 pages HB 9780567672872 • £85.00 / $114.00 Library eBook 9780567672889 Series: Pauline and Patristic Scholars in Debate • T&T Clark
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Jewish and Christian Texts Series Editor: James H. Charlesworth, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA This series focuses on early Jewish and Christian texts and their formative contexts; it also includes sourcebooks that help clarify the ancient world.
The Protevangelium of James Volume 1: Greek Text, English Translation, Critical Introduction
George T. Zervos, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA This is the first in a two-volume critical investigation of one of the earliest and most important of the New Testament Apocrypha, the Protevangelium of James (also known as the Infancy Gospel of James). Zervos challenges the prevailing view that the ProtJas is a 2nd century unitary document, and finds instead that it is a product of an ongoing redactional process by which a 1st century CE 'heretical' text was progressively conformed to the 'orthodox' Christian doctrine of the time. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 256 pages • 4 bw Illus HB 9780567256546 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567689757 Library eBook 9780567053169 Series: Jewish and Christian Texts • T&T Clark
Afterlife and Resurrection Beliefs in the Apocrypha and Apocalyptic Literature
Jan Age Sigvartsen, Theologische Hochschule Friedensau, Germany. Sigvartsen examines the immense interest in life after death, and speculation about the fates awaiting both the righteous and the wicked that proliferated in the Second Temple period. Sigvartsen systematically examines the texts of the Apocrypha, in particular those with an apocalyptic focus, and identifies the numerous afterlife and resurrection beliefs, and analyses these beliefs, enabling readers to easily understand and compare the wide-ranging beliefs on afterlife that these texts hold. The volume is a companion volume to Sigvartsen's other work on these themes in the Pseudepigrapha. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 240 pages HB 9780567685513 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567689252 Library eBook 9780567685520 Series: Jewish and Christian Texts • T&T Clark
Afterlife and Resurrection Beliefs in the Pseudepigrapha
Jan Age Sigvartsen, Theologische Hochschule Friedensau, Germany. An examination of the numerous afterlife and resurrection beliefs in the Pseudepigrapha. Sigvartsen offers a close reading of resurrection passages within the texts, and how they compare with each other, showing that often there is no evidence to suggest that they developed together, but rather are rooted in specific verses in TaNaKh. This volume in particular examines testaments, expansions of stories and legends (such as Joseph and Aseneth) and also considers the posthumous body, the nature of the soul, and anthropological implications. The work is a companion volume to Sigvartsen's other volume on afterlife and resurrection in the Apocyrpha. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 272 pages HB 9780567685544 • £85.00 / $115.00 Library eBook 9780567685551 Series: Jewish and Christian Texts • T&T Clark
Scribes and Their Remains
Edited by Craig A. Evans, Acadia Divinity College, Canada & Jeremiah J. Johnston, Houston Baptist University, USA This volume examines the text as artifact, looking at a wide range of issues related to how early Christian texts were developed, transmitted and preserved. The volume begins with a piece by Stanley Porter looking at this overarching issue with a broad view. The book is then split into two parts, the first addressing scribes, letters and literacy and featuring a lengthy study on the longevity of New Testament autographs by Craig A. Evans. Part two looks at modes of writing, reading and abbreviating Christian scripture. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 384 pages • 186 bw illus HB 9780567688040 • £85.00 / $115.00 Library eBook 9780567688057 Series: The Library of Second Temple Studies • T&T Clark
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Series Editor: Chris Keith, St. Mary's University, Twickenham, UK Formerly the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement, this series explores the many aspects of New Testament study including historical perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and theological, cultural and contextual approaches. For more information and a full series listing, please visit: www.bloomsbury.com/series/the-library-of-new-testament-studies
Paul and the Greco-Roman Philosophical Tradition
Edited by Joseph R. Dodson, Ouachita Baptist University, USA & Andrew W. Pitts, Arizona Christian University, USA Paul and the Greco-Roman Philosophical Tradition provides a fresh examination of the relationship of Greco-Roman philosophy to Pauline Christianity and an in-depth look at different approaches currently employed by scholars who draw upon philosophical settings in the ancient world to inform their understanding of Paul. The book is divided into two sections, one consisting of essays that situate GrecoRoman philosophy as a social setting for Pauline Christianity, and one consisting of exegetical studies dealing with various passages where motifs emerging from ancient philosophical culture provide illumination. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 320 pages PB 9780567688071 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567657916 Individual eBook 9780567657923 Library eBook 9780567657930 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Minor Prophets in the New Testament
Edited by Maarten J.J. Menken & Steve Moyise, Newman University, UK The Minor Prophets in the New Testament brings together a set of specially commissioned studies by experts in the field. After an introductory chapter, each of the New Testament books that contain quotations from the Minor Prophets are discussed: Mark, Matthew, Luke-Acts, John, Paul, Hebrews, James, 1 and 2 Peter, and Revelation. Readers are given an overview of the status, role and function of the Minor Prophets in the first century. The text considers the Greek and Hebrew manuscript traditions and offers insights into the various hermeneutical stances of the New Testament authors and the development of New Testament theology. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 192 pages PB 9780567689665 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567033055 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Holy Terror: Jesus in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas J.R.C. Cousland, University of British Columbia, Canada
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is one of the most unusual gospels in the Christian tradition, in which Jesus is presented as a holy terror who kills and wounds adults for trifling faults. Cousland addresses why Jesus is portrayed in this way, placing this characterization in the context of the literary framework of the Gospel of Thomas and the larger setting of the Greco-Roman world. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 160 pages PB 9780567688804 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567668165 Individual eBook 9780567668189 Library eBook 9780567668172 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Torah in the New Testament
Papers Delivered at the ManchesterLausanne Seminar of June 2008 Edited by Michael Tait & Peter Oakes, University of Manchester, UK Torah in the New Testament is a collection of papers delivered at the Manchester—Lausanne Seminar of June 2008. This also involved contributions from the Universities of Sheffield, Geneva and the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. The purpose of the seminar was to offer some significant studies on the general topic of the Torah in the New Testament with particular reference to methodological issues, to the Jesus traditions in the Gospels, and to Paul and the Law. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 304 pages PB 9780567689634 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567006738 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Defeat of Death: Apocalyptic Eschatology in 1 Corinthians 15 and Romans 5
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Martinus C. de Boer
de Boer presents and exegetical and theological examination of Paul's theology of death and its apocalyptic context. The key texts with which de Boer engages are 1 Corinthians 15 and Romans 5, and the work builds on the scholarship of Käsemann and Beker. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 288 pages PB 9780567690197 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781850750895 Library eBook 9780567493163 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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The Library of New Testament Studies continued Reading Dreams
An Audience-Critical Approach to the Dreams in the Gospel of Matthew Derek S. Dodson Dodson reads the dreams in the Gospel of Matthew (1:18b-25; 2:12, 13-15, 19-21, 22; 27:19) as the authorial audience. This approach requires an understanding of the social and literary character of dreams in the Greco-Roman world. Dodson describes the social function of dreams, noting that dreams constituted one form of divination in the ancient world, and looks at the theories and classification of dreams that developed in the ancient world. He moves on to demonstrate the literary dimensions of dreams in GrecoRoman literature. The dreams in the Gospel of Matthew are then analyzed in this social and literary context. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 240 pages PB 9780567689696 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567577702 Library eBook 9780567153203 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Methodology in the Use of the Old Testament in the New Context and Criteria
Edited by David Allen, The Queen's Foundation, UK & Steve Smith, St Mellitus College, UK This volume considers three areas of methodological interest or focus with respect to the use of the Old Testament in the New, and contains several invited essays on each focus area. The first section sets the scene, by opening up an interdisciplinary conversation as to what insights Old Testament and New Testament scholars might glean from other related disciplines. The second and third sections look specifically at how ancient authors conceived of the use of scripture in their writings, and the third examines the criteria that can/should be used for determining Old Testament allusions or echoes in the New Testament. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 224 pages HB 9780567678041 • £85.00 / $114.00 Library eBook 9780567678058 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Anthropology and New Testament Theology
Edited by Jason Maston, Houston Baptist University, USA & Benjamin E. Reynolds, Tyndale University, Canada What does it mean to be human? This volume considers this question in the New Testament, through an examination of the anthropological ideas found in the texts of the New Testament and the thought of its writers. The volume concludes with pieces from Brian S. Roser and Ephraim Radner who bring the whole exploration together by reflecting on the theological implications of the New Testament’s anthropological ideas. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 336 pages PB 9780567690043 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567660343 Individual eBook 9780567680228 Library eBook 9780567660336 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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The Paul-Apollos Relationship and Paul's Stance toward GrecoRoman Rhetoric An Exegetical and Socio-historical Study of 1 Corinthians 1-4 Corin Mihaila Research into the social and rhetorical background of the Corinthian church, shows that the Corinthians were evaluating their leaders based on their rhetorical prowess, seeking to associate with those who would enhance their status and honour. The coherence of Paul's argument in 1 Corinthians 1-4 is evaluated, particularly by showing how Paul's discourse of the cross and Sophia relate to the issue of the dissensions in the Corinthian ekklesia. Once demonstrated that there is a misunderstanding of wisdom amongst church leaders at the basis of the dissensions, a redefinition of the wisdom offered in Corinthians is required. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 272 pages PB 9780567689702 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567183828 Library eBook 9780567628237 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
A Grammatical and Exegetical Study of New Testament Verbs of Transference A Case Frame Guide to Interpretation and Translation Paul L. Danove, Villanova University, USA This study continues the adaptation of the method of Case Frame analysis for the investigation of the Greek text of the New Testament. Case Frame analysis distinguishes the words of a language into two categories, predicators and non- predicators, and provides rigorous procedures for describing the syntactic, semantic, and lexical requirements that predicators impose on the words that complete their meaning. The inclusion of semantic function and feature descriptions in Case Frame analysis permits the development of a new genre of lexicon that specifies not only syntactic and lexical information (as do traditional dictionaries) but detailed semantic information. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 258 pages PB 9780567689719 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567031167 Library eBook 9780567377548 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Audience of the Gospels
The Origin and Function of the Gospels in Early Christianity Edited by Edward W. Klink III The discussion initiated by The Gospels for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences, edited by Richard Bauckham, has had a profound effect on gospel study and has been probed and debated at major conferences, as well as at an international conference on the Gospel of John (2002). Almost every commentary or major monograph on the gospels has had to deal with its thesis. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 208 pages PB 9780567689221 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567045362 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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Reconstructing the Historical Background of Paul’s Rhetoric in the Letter to the Colossians
Selected Essays on Textual Criticism and Early Christian Manuscripts Larry W. Hurtado, University of Edinburgh, UK The essays included in this volume present Larry W. Hurtado’s steadfast analysis of the earliest Christian manuscripts. In these chapters Hurtado considers not only standard text-critical issues which seek to uncover an earliest possible version of a text, but also the manuscripts available to us themselves. Hurtado examines often overlooked 2nd and 3rd century artefacts, which are among the earliest manuscripts available, drawing fascinating conclusions about the features of early Christianity. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 256 pages PB 9780567688828 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567677716 Library eBook 9780567677709 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Image and Glory of God
1 Corinthians 11:2-16 As A Case Study In Bible, Gender And Hermeneutics Michael Lakey, Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, UK This hermeneutical case-study illustrates the complexities of using biblical materials to shed light upon present-day concerns. The specific situation addressed is the recent evangelical controversy regarding gender roles. A significant strand of this debate concerns the relationship between gender and the doctrine of God. Lakey examines this with reference to 1 Corinthians 11 and points us towards forging a solution for how to interpret as Christian Scripture a text that invites its readers to assume a stance that is now problematic for many modern Christians. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 224 pages PB 9780567688880 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567182609 Library eBook 9780567018564 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Great Sermon Tradition as a Fiscal Framework in 1 Corinthians
Towards a Pauline Theology of Material Possessions Christopher L. Carter This text addresses two separate but related questions. Firstly, what is Paul's theology of material possessions, and secondly, what is the source of the apostle's thought on this subject? Carter endeavours to answer these questions by posing the hypothesis that Paul owes his pecuniary thought to the synoptic sermon tradition. Unlike other studies that investigate this link, Carter does not appeal to verbal parallels to establish this theory. Rather, he demonstrates a continuity in the broad fiscal thought of Jesus and Paul. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 288 pages PB 9780567689290 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567473042 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Adam Copenhaver, Ezra Bible Institute, USA
In approaching the debate surrounding the opponents in Colossians from a methodological standpoint, Copenhaver contends that Paul was not actually confronting active opponents when he wrote the letter. Rather, Copenhaver takes the view that Paul’s letter was written to the churches in the Lycus Valley, in a desire to develop their identity as a new people in Christ and to appeal to them to live a new kind of life. His warnings in Colossians 2 function as oppositional rhetoric, contrasting the religious practices of the Lycus Valley with this new belief. Paul’s warnings are therefore broadly representative of the ancient world, while at the same time focused especially on two threads of historical referents, Judaism and pagan religions. Development of the above argument demonstrates that the challenge of reconstructing a singular opponent arises not only from the limitations of textual and historical evidence, but also from the assumptions and methodologies inherent in historical approaches to the text. By modifying these assumptions and adjusting the methodology, Copenhaver can show how Paul’s letter takes on a new relationship to its historical context. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 288 pages PB 9780567689610 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567678812 Library eBook 9780567678829 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
"The Sufferings of Christ Are Abundant In Us"
A Narrative Dynamics Investigation of Paul's Sufferings in 2 Corinthians Kar Yong Lim This study investigates why Paul makes the theme of suffering so central to his argument in 2 Corinthians. It is pursued through an exegetical analysis of passages where Paul's suffering is described, namely 1:3-11; 2:14-116; 4:7-12; 6:1-10 and 11:23-12:10. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 256 pages PB 9780567690098 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567107282 Library eBook 9780567635143 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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"All of You are One"
The Social Vision of Gal 3.28, 1 Cor 12.13 and Col 3.11 Bruce Hansen Hansen argues against prevalent views that the unity formula employed in Gal 3.28, 1 Cor 12.13 and Col 3.11 reflects either a Hellenistic anthropology of ideal androgyny or a modern liberal conception of social equality. Rather, the author contends, attention to function and context demonstrates each epistle's vision of social unity. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 256 pages PB 9780567689313 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567136046 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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The Library of New Testament Studies continued Christ Redeemed 'Us' from the Curse of the Law
Sharing in the Son’s Inheritance
Jarvis J. Williams, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA
Esau McCaulley
A Jewish Martyrological Reading of Galatians 3.13
Jarvis J. Williams advances the argument that Paul borrowed from the martyr traditions represented in 2 and 4 Maccabees, and that he reconstructed them to fit his exegetical, theological, and polemical purposes in Gal 3:13 in order to persuade the Galatians not to embrace his opponents’ Torah-observant, gentile-exclusive gospel. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 280 pages HB 9780567657572 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567657596 Library eBook 9780567657589 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
So Great a Salvation
A Dialogue on the Atonement in Hebrews Edited by Jon C. Laansma, Wheaton College, USA, George H. Guthrie, Union University, USA & Cynthia Long Westfall, Denver Seminary, USA A definitive collection of studies on the atonement in Hebrews that will be of service well beyond the confines of Hebrews’ specialists, a collection as important for what it says about the atonement and the 21st century church as for what it says about Hebrews. It serves as a resource for further study of Hebrews and the theology of the atonement. At the same time it contributes to the renewing conversation between biblical and theological scholarship. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 320 pages HB 9780567656629 • £90.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9780567689115 Library eBook 9780567657244 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
This book explores the link between Paul’s belief that Jesus is Israel’s Messiah, and his interpretation of the promise made to Abraham in Galatians. Countering claims that Paul replaces the Promised Land with the gift of the Spirit or salvation, Esau McCauley argues that Paul expands this inheritance to include the whole earth due to his belief that, as the seed of Abraham and David, Jesus is entitled to the entire earth as his inheritance and kingdom. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 240 pages HB 9780567685926 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567685957 Library eBook 9780567685933 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Proskynesis of Jesus in the New Testament A Study on the Significance of Jesus as an Object of "Proskuneo" in the New Testament Writings Ray M. Lozano, Biola University, USA Lozano investigates the use of the Greek term "proskuneo" with Jesus as the object in the New Testament writings and examines its capacity to express various degrees of reverence directed toward a superior, from a respectful greeting of an elder to cultic worship paid to a god. Lozano then looks at the term in reference to Jesus in the New Testament writing (Mark, Matthew, Luke-Acts, John, Hebrews, and Revelation) and in so-doing shows that each of these New Testament writings, in their own unique ways, presents Jesus as a divine figure uniquely and closely linked to the God of Israel. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 224 pages HB 9780567688149 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9780567688170 Library eBook 9780567688156 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Earliest Perceptions of Jesus in Context Essays in Honor of John Nolland
Edited by Aaron White, Trinity College Bristol, UK, David Wenham, Trinity College Bristol, UK & Craig A. Evans, Acadia Divinity College, Canada The question of the identity of Jesus has been an important focus of modern New Testament scholarship, with particular attention paid to how Jesus was originally perceived. This volume contributes to the study of this question, with the various essays presenting new facets on the subject from a variety of angles. Approaches include: methodology, archaeology, background, individual gospel perspectives, gospel relationships, intertextuality in the gospels, as well as the earliest reception of the Jesus tradition in the post-Easter writings of the New Testament, and the ethical implications of Jesus' teaching. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 352 pages PB 9780567690067 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567671776 Library eBook 9780567671783 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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Davidic Messianism and Paul’s Worldwide Interpretation of the Abrahamic Land Promise in Galatians
Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels Volume 4: The Gospel of John Edited by Thomas R. Hatina Beginning with an introduction that surveys methodological approaches used in the study of the function of scripture in John, Hatina presents specially commissioned studies in four categories: (1) historicalcritical approaches, (2) rhetorical and linguistic approaches, (3) social memory approaches, and (4) literary approaches. Each study contains not only recent research on the function of scripture in John, but also an explanation of the approach that is taken, making the collection an ideal resource for both scholars and students who are interested in the complexities of interpretation. UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 240 pages HB 9780567684158 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567684110 Library eBook 9780567684141 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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Studies on Jewish Scripture in the Fourth Gospel Michael A. Daise, College of William and Mary, USA Daise outlines the exegetical issues raised by three groups of scriptural quotations in the gospel of John, and traces the implications which resonate from the interrelationships that occur between them. A set of Isaianic quotations form an inclusio to the Book of Signs which models the Jews as both called by, yet kept from, Jesus’ public ministry. Quotations ‘remembered’ by Jesus' followers depict Jesus’ disciples as having been pneumatologically illumined to a new, eschatological order after the resurrection. And quotations cited during Jesus’ crucifixion are all fulfilled by soldiers beneath the cross, thus serving to dramatize John's christology. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 272 pages HB 9780567681799 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9780567681836 Library eBook 9780567681805 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Roman Empire in Luke's Narrative Kazuhiko Yamazaki-Ransom
Employing a historically-informed narrative-critical approach to Luke-Acts, this work illuminates Luke's portrayals of Roman officials in light of the Jewish portrayals of Gentile rulers in both the Old Testament and in Second Temple literature. It explores the intertextual relationship of Luke-Acts with preceding Jewish literature, going beyond quotations and clear allusions and providing a broader engagement with Luke's textual world. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 256 pages PB 9780567688859 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567364395 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Hearing Between the Lines
The Audience as Fellow-Worker in LukeActs and its Literary Milieu Kathy Maxwell Kathy Maxwell explores ancient rhetoricians' comments about 'the audience', as well as the kinds of audience participation they expected and the tools used to encourage such participation. Such tools were employed in ancient pagan, Jewish, and Christian literature - the concern being to engage the audience. Maxwell's conclusions impact not only the way biblical scholars view the rhetorical abilities of the Evangelists, but also the way in which modern readers 'hear' the biblical narrative. The modern audience also bears the responsibility of hearing between the lines, of creating the story with the ancient author. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 224 pages PB 9780567688873 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567592910 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Figure of Abraham in John 8 Text and Intertext
Ruth Sheridan, University of Newcastle, Australia Using methods derived from modern and postmodern literary criticism Ruth Sheridan examines textual allusions to the biblical figures of Cain and Abraham in John 8:1-59. She pays particular attention to how these allusions give shape to the Gospel's alleged and infamous anti-Judaism (exemplified in John 8:44). Moreover, Sheridan uniquely studies the subsequent reception in the Patristic and Rabbinic literature, not only of John 8, but also of the figures of Cain and Abraham. Sheridan shows how these figures are linked in Christian and Jewish imagination in the formative centuries in which the two religions came into definition. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 208 pages HB 9780567238061 • £85.00 / $115.00 Library eBook 9780567424020 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Gentile Mission in Old Testament Citations in Acts Text, Hermeneutic, and Purpose James A. Meek James Meek draws out the theme of the gentile mission in Acts as it relates to the Old Testament, and gives particular attention to four texts: Acts 13.47 (Is 49.6); 15.16-18 (Amos 9.11-12); 2.17-21 (Joel 3.1-5 MT); 3.25 (Gen 22.18). Meek focuses particularly on the quotations in Acts 13 and 15 because they explicitly address the issue of the gentile mission (the two earlier texts anticipate it) and because of particular interpretive questions raised by these texts. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 192 pages PB 9780567690203 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567033802 Library eBook 9780567124388 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Path to Salvation in Luke's Gospel What Must We Do? Mi ja Wi This book investigates Luke’s message of salvation in relation to socio-economic issues, and thus concerns salvation of the rich as well as the poor. With a narrative reading of Luke’s Gospel built on careful examination of its socio-economic context, it demonstrates that Luke’s message of salvation is best understood as: 1) Divine mercy which champions the cause of the poor and redresses the injustice of the world, 2) Its human embodiment, and 3) Divine reward promised to those who enact mercy.
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Quotations in John
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The Library of New Testament Studies continued The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae (vol 4)
A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition, volume 4 Acts 18.24-28.31: Rome Jenny Read-Heimerdinger & Josep Rius-Camps This is the final volume in the justifiably lauded fourvolume commentary on the Book of Acts, presenting a fresh look at the text of Codex Bezae and comparing its message with that of the more familiar Alexandrian text - of which the Codex Vaticanus is taken as a representative. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 434 pages PB 9780567690074 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567048998 Library eBook 9780567313492 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Use of Scripture in the Markan Passion Narrative Kelli S. O'Brien
O'Brien assesses the interpretive impact of scriptural allusions on the Markan passion narrative, considering how those passages are treated in Jewish and Christian traditions potentially available to the author of Mark. Allusions interpret the Markan Christology, but they also interpret other aspects of the drama, such as the opponents in the Jewish trial and the offer of vinegary wine. Most importantly, O'Brien shows how allusions in the passion narrative indicate in what sense the author understood Jesus' death to be redemptive and eschatological. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 344 pages PB 9780567688866 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567033796 Library eBook 9780567390578 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Narrative Nicholas Elder, Marquette University, USA.
Elder addresses media and modes of composition in antiquity, arguing that the Gospel of Mark and Joseph and Aseneth were both composed via dictation from their antecedent oral traditions. Elder bases his case on several shared features of the text: they are both paratactically structured and contain few long, complex periods. They are repetitive and each employ a comparable proportion of active to passive voice verbs, and present and imperfect to aorist tenses. Elder's approach offers new insights for considering the relationship between orality and textuality in early Judaism and Christianity, avoiding the so-called "great divide" approach to these issues. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 224 pages HB 9780567688101 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9780567688132 Library eBook 9780567688118 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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A Poetic Discontent
Austin Farrer and the Gospel of Mark Robert Titley "A detailed critical evaluation of Farrer's work on Mark. [Titley's] exploration of Farrer's structural and prefigurative approach to Mark is by itself very useful in understanding Farrer's thought." Review of Biblical Literature Titley examines two major texts of Farrer's: his 1948 Bampton Lectures, published as The Glass of Vision, and his A Study in St Mark (1951) and re-evaluates Farrer's contribution to the study of Mark. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 240 pages PB 9780567688934 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567283214 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Jesus' Cry From the Cross
Towards a First-Century Understanding of the Intertextual Relationship between Psalm 22 and the Narrative of Mark's Gospel Holly J. Carey Using a multi-level approach to Mark 15:34, and contra to the opinion of the majority of Markan scholarship, a contextual reading of Ps 22:2 does not serve to negate or dilute the presentation of Jesus as one in distress. Rather, such a reading enhances this aspect of his death by underscoring his identity as a Righteous Sufferer who experiences suffering but has the promise of vindication. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 240 pages PB 9780567690111 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567018588 Library eBook 9780567110886 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Mark 15:39 as a Markan Theology of Revelation The Centurion's Confession as Apocalyptic Unveiling
Brian K. Gamel, Baylor University, USA Jesus' arrest, trial and execution ends with the Roman centurion who oversees the death process proclaiming Jesus as God's son. This surprising exclamation occurs moments after Jesus has been put to death amidst a crowd of mockery. Gamel explores two key questions in relation to this moment: what does the centurion mean when he says that Jesus is God's son, and why does he say it? Gamel argues that the offer of sight to the centurion demonstrates the reconciliation of God and humanity which are otherwise in Mark's Gospel repeatedly presented as antagonistic spheres. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 224 pages PB 9780567688095 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567673435 Individual eBook 9780567680235 Library eBook 9780567673442 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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Jesus and Paul
Daniel W. McManigal, Hope Presbyterian Church, USA
Edited by B. J. Oropeza, Douglas C. Mohrmann & C. K. Robertson
John’s Eschatological Proclamation in Matthew 3
Global Perspectives in Honour of James D. G. Dunn. A festschrift for his 70th Birthday
A fresh analysis of the meaning of the baptism in the Holy Spirit and fire and John’s baptism as a prophetic sign-act. Expanding upon the sources, grammar and meaning of the Logion, analysing Old Testament and Second Temple texts, and discussing the prevalent theme of judgment in baptism, McManigal offers the first extended treatment of the baptism in the Holy Spirit in Matthew. Drawing out the unique Matthean meaning of the baptism of the "coming one," McManigal offers readers a new insight into the nature of repenting and prophetic baptism, whether through water, fire or Spirit.
James D. G. Dunn has been one of the most influential New Testament scholars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His works have altered the very way biblical theologians view Jesus and Paul. This book is written in gratitude of his influence and mentorship. The focus of the work parallels the major research of Dunn's career. It emphasizes the life and teachings of Jesus as remembered by his disciples, the new perspective on Paul, teachings in the Pauline letters, and relevant topics related to ancient Judaism, the Law, Soteriology and Christology in the New Testament.
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Reading Ephesians
Exploring Social Entrepreneurship in the Text Minna Shkul Minna Shkul examines how Ephesians engages in social entrepreneurship - the deliberate shaping of emerging Christian Identity. She uses an eclectic theoretical framework and deutero-Pauline reading position, which has two key aims. The first is to offer a theoretically informed social-scientific reading which demonstrates the extensive socio-ideological shaping within the text, and displays the writer's negotiation of different group processes throughout the letter. The second is to examine emerging Christian identity in the text. Crucially this is done without the theological presupposition that something was wrong with the Judaism practised at the time. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 304 pages PB 9780567689269 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567287779 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Paul and Epictetus on Law A Comparison Niko Huttunen Paul's relationship with covenantal nomism has long been the subject of lively discussion. In this book Niko Huttunen presents a challenging new path to complement the general scholarly picture of Paul's teaching on law. Acknowledging that Stoicism permeated Paul's intellectual milieu, Huttunen compares Paul's sayings of law with those of Epictetus drawing comparisons as a result of careful methodological considerations. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 208 pages PB 9780567689641 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567074393 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Price of Partnership in the Letter of Paul to the Philippians "Make My Joy Complete"
A Former Jew
Paul and the Dialectics of Race Love L. Sechrest Sechrest describes Pauline Christianity as a nascent ancient racial group, drawing on a Jewish understanding of race in Second Temple Judaism. With analysis of nearly five thousand Jewish and non-Jewish passages about identity from around the turn of the era, the models presented describe ancient Greek and Jewish ethnic and racial identity. Further, these models become resources for examining the racial character of Paul's self-identity and the continuities and discontinuities between the three races in his social world: Jews, Gentiles, and Christians. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 288 pages PB 9780567689627 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567462749 Library eBook 9780567061386 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Mark A. Jennings, Gordon-Conwell Seminary, USA
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A Baptism of Judgment in the Fire of the Holy Spirit
An examination of the purpose of Philippians showing that Paul wrote the letter with the sole intent of persuading the church to maintain its exclusive partnership with him and his gospel mission. In his discussion Jennings examines each section of the letter closely using standard historical-critical methods and with specific attention tokoinonia, the issue of 'rival' missions and Paul's affirmations of superiority, and Paul's comments about finance. Ultimately Jennings shows that in the letter Paul is urging the church at Philippi to be steadfast not just to the gospel of Christ, but to his gospel of Christ. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 240 pages PB 9780567689597 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567678010 Individual eBook 9780567682079 Library eBook 9780567678027 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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A Comparative Analysis of the Epistle of Jude, Jewish Judgement Oracles, and Greco-Roman Invective Alexandra Robinson, Macquarie University, Australia A detailed survey of Greco-Roman invectives and Jewish judgment oracles, comparing and contrasting them to the epistle of Jude. Robinson examines the structure, aims, themes, and style of these texts and in the end concludes that Jude is a ‘Jewish invective.’ The epistle is a polemical text which takes the form (structure, aims, and style) of a typical Greco-Roman invective but is filled with Jewish content (themes and allusions), drawing on Israel’s heritage for the benefit of his primarily Jewish-Christian audience. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 272 pages PB 9780567689184 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567678782 Library eBook 9780567678799 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Contest for Time and Space in the Roman Imperial Cults and 1 Peter Reconfiguring the Universe
Wei Hsien Wan, Axiom Learning, Malaysia. This volume examines 1 Peter’s critique of the Roman Empire in terms of its ideology or worldview. Building on the work of David Horrell and Travis Williams on resistance against Rome in 1 Peter, and of James Scott in anaylsing ideological resistance against domination, Wan considers how the imperial cults of Anatolia and 1 Peter offered distinct constructions of time and space; arguing that 1 Peter confronts Rome on a cosmic scale with its alternative construal of time and space and sets forth in the place of imperial imagination a theocentric, Christological understanding of the world. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 224 pages HB 9780567684431 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9780567684479 Library eBook 9780567684448 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Magical Motifs in the Book of Revelation Rodney Lawrence Thomas
Rodney Thomas addresses the question of whether the book of Revelation was written as an ‘anti-magical' polemic and explores the concept and definition of ‘magic' from both modern and first-century standpoints. Thomas presents the first century as a time dominated by belief in spiritual forces and magical activity which the author of Revelation sought to put into proper perspective. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 240 pages PB 9780567688392 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567226860 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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Reading Second Peter with New Eyes Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of Second Peter
Edited by Robert L. Webb & Duane F. Watson The chapters collected in this volume examine the impact of recent methodological developments in New Testament studies to Second Peter, including rhetorical, socialscientific, socio-rhetorical, ideological and hermeneutical methods, as their contribution to the understanding of the letter and its social context. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 202 pages PB 9780567688361 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567033635 Library eBook 9780567540430 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Christ, Shepherd of the Nations The Nations as Narrative Character and Audience in John's Apocalypse
Jon Morales, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA A fresh examination of the question of the nations in Revelation, carried out through employing narrative categories and asking four research questions: what is John’s story of the nations? How does he tell it? What is John’s message to the nations? What is John’s message to the church concerning the nations? Underpinning this analysis is the principle that character cannot be understood as an abstraction but must be rather discovered sequentially in the development of an entire narrative.This leads Morales to conclude that John's purpose concerning the nations is to show that they belong to God and to his Christ. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 208 pages PB 9780567689207 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567677952 Individual eBook 9780567681737 Library eBook 9780567677969 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Social Significance of Reconciliation in Paul's Theology Narrative Readings in Romans Corneliu Constantineanu "Should be read by anyone interested in studying religion's role in reconciling earthly conflicts." Reviews in Religion and Theology An assessment of the social dimension to reconciliation as displayed in Paul's Letter to the Romans. Constantineanu argues that Paul's understanding of reconciliation is complex, employing rich symbolism to describe reconciliation with God and between human beings forming an inseparable reality. The discussion is placed within Paul's overall religious, social and political contexts and focuses on Romans 5-8 and 12-15. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 272 pages PB 9780567688385 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567581983 Library eBook 9780567535481 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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Paul's Utilization of Preformed Traditions in 1 Timothy
Michael W. Pahl
Mark M. Yarbrough
"The Word of the Lord" in 1 Thessalonians 4:1
In 1 Thessalonians 4:15, the Apostle Paul appeals to a "word of the Lord" to provide authority for his eschatological encouragement. Two theories have predominated in the history of interpretation: either 1) it refers to a directly received prophetic revelation; or 2) it refers to a teaching of Jesus received as tradition. This book investigates this problem from three angles: epistemological analysis, examining Paul's authorities for his knowledge, particularly in his eschatology; linguistic analysis, including both grammatical and lexical study of the phrase; and contextual analysis, setting the statement within its historical and literary contexts. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 216 pages PB 9780567690180 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567455659 Library eBook 9780567441461 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Rediscovering the Marys Maria, Mariamne, Miriam
Edited by Mary Ann Beavis & Allysin Kateusz This interdisciplinary volume provides new insights into Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, Mary the Mother of Jesus, and Miriam the sister of Moses. Mariamic traditions are often interconnected, as seen in the portrayal of these women as community leaders, prophets, apostles and priests. These chapters explore questions such as: which biblical Mary did the author of the Gospel of Mary intend to portray—Magdalene, Mother, or neither? Why did some writers depict Mary of Nazareth as a priest? And were extracanonical scriptures featuring Mary more influential than the canonical gospels on the depiction of Maryam in the Qur’an?
An evaluation of the Apostle's literary, rhetorical, and theological tactics
Mark Yarbrough assesses the question of whether traditional 'preformed' material contributes to the message and understanding of Paul's first letter to Timothy. The issue is addressed in three sections. Part one evaluates previous works interacting with 'traditional' material in the New Testament. Through a critique of historically proposed criteria, Yarbrough identifies eight criteria as the primary tools by which to discern units of preformed material. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 256 pages PB 9780567689245 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567254900 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
The Bible on Television
Edited by Helen K. Bond, University of Edinburgh, UK & Edward Adams, King's College London, UK This volume examines and discusses selected Bible documentaries and academically informed dramatizations of the Bible. In the first section, a number of influential filmmakers and producers discuss their work in relation to the context and constraints of television (especially religious television) programming. The second section contains reflections of academics who have acted as historical consultants and presenters. They examine the processes involved and how their contributions were used. The third section assesses the finished products, and what they can tell us about the modern reception of the Bible. UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 224 pages HB 9780567673992 • £85.00 / $114.00 Library eBook 9780567674005 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies & Scriptural Traces • T&T Clark
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Clothing and Nudity in the Hebrew Bible
Edited by Christoph Berner, University of Göttingen, Germany, et al This comprehensive reference resource covers a wide range of perspectives, subjects, and texts related to nudity and clothing. The volume is in three parts. The first considers methodology, archaeology, material culture and the iconography of ancient Israel and the near east. Part two looks at key themes such as mourning, death, encounter with the divine and issues of power and status. Finally, part three presents close studies of key passages where clothing and nudity play an important role, beginning with the nakedness of Adam and Eve in Genesis, and continuing through to the literature of the Second Temple period. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 576 pages • 130 bw illus HB 9780567678478 • £130.00 / $176.00 Individual eBook 9780567678492 Library eBook 9780567678485 T&T Clark
A Classified Bibliography on Ecclesiastes
David J. H. Beldman, Redeemer University College, Canada & Russell L. Meek, Louisiana College, USA This reference resource presents a comprehensive listing of bibliographical references of writings on the book of Ecclesiastes. Rather than being presented in alphabetical order these references are classified according to genre, chapter, and subject/theme. These classifications have been selected by specialists working on Ecclesiastes in order to guide scholars and researchers through the wealth of secondary material available and to prompt further research on the text.
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T&T Clark Handbook of Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics Edited by Uriah Y. Kim, Graduate Theological Union, USA & Seung Ai Yang, Chicago Theological Seminary, USA
The first reference resource on how Asian Americans read and interpret the Bible, this volume also serves a valuable role in both developing and disseminating what can be termed as Asian American biblical hermeneutics. Part 1 describes six major ethnic groups that make up 85% of the Asian population and outlines the specific concerns each group has when its members read the Bible. Part 2 examines critical methods in biblical interpretation and suggests adjustments that may be helpful in Asian American interpretation. Finally, Part 3 provides 25 interpretations by Asian American biblical scholars on specific biblical texts. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 544 pages HB 9780567672605 • £130.00 / $176.00 Individual eBook 9780567672629 Library eBook 9780567672612 Series: T&T Clark Handbooks • T&T Clark
T&T Clark International Theological Commentary Series Editors: Michael Allen and Scott R. Swain, both Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL, USA The T&T Clark International Theological Commentary (ITC) offers a verse by verse interpretation of the Bible that addresses its theological subject matter, gleaning the best from both the classical and modern commentary traditions and showing the doctrinal development of Scriptural truths. A companion series to the long-running International Critical Commentary (ICC) the ITC bears all the same hallmarks of scholarly rigour and excellence.
Micah: An International Theological Commentary
Mark Gignilliat, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, USA Gignilliat begins this volume on Micah by reflecting upon the nature of theological commentary in relation to biblical interpretation in two programmatic chapters, before situating Micah within current discussions on the book of the Twelve, focusing specifically on Micah’s relation with Jonah and Nahum. The next seven chapters are devoted to the interpretation and exegesis of the book of Micah. The commentary addresses literary issues involving the structure, grammar, and textual variants of a given passage, followed by broader theological reflections. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 320 pages HB 9780567195128 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9780567688989 Library eBook 9780567688996 Series: T&T Clark International Theological Commentary • T&T Clark
The Pastoral Epistles: An International Theological Commentary Volume One: I and II Timothy
Gerald L. Bray, Beeson Divinity School, USA This commentary offers verse-by-verse theological interpretation of first and second Timothy. Bray reads the letters as authoritative scripture, moving beyond questions of whether they are pseudonymous, and of whether or not they are post-apostolic, and looking closely at how they have been understood in the life of the Church. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 528 pages HB 9780567334190 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9780567689443 Library eBook 9780567689436 Series: T&T Clark International Theological Commentary • T&T Clark
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2-Volume Set
Sir William Smith (1813 – 1893) and Samuel Cheetham (1827 – 1908) Introduced by Michael Ledger-Lomas, King’s College, London, UK This two-volume set provides an account of all aspects of the early Christian Church. Remarkable in their range and depth of scholarship, they cover the organisation and history of the church, its legislation and revenues; church worship and ceremonial; music, vestments, objects and insignia; sacred places and symbolism; saints and ecclesiastical figures; church architecture; church art; graves, catacombs and tombs; and the religious calendar. With a new introduction by leading authority, Michael Ledger-Lomas, these volumes form a unique and valuable resource.
Moulton’s Grammar of New Testament Greek
5-Volume Set
James Hope Moulton (1863 – 1917), Wilbert Francis Howard (1880 – 1952) and Nigel Turner, University of Rhodesia, Zimbabwe Edited by Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada Supplementary volume by Rev. William Fiddian Moulton (1835 – 1898) “The most comprehensive account of the language of the New Testament ever produced.” The Expository Times Five volumes, 2,676 pages and 99 chapters present and analyse Moulton’s classic text, forming an invaluable resource for students of New Testament Greek. Each of the classic volumes features a new critical introduction and bibliography from Stanley E. Porter, and the set also includes a supplementary volume by James Hope Moulton’s father which expertly analyses the grammar of the New Testament.
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The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries
3-Volume Set
Edited by Chris Keith, St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK; Helen K. Bond, University of Edinburgh, UK; Christine Jacobi, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany; and Jens Schröter, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Draws on recent advances in social and cultural memory theory as a framework for approaching interactions of receptions of Jesus in the first three centuries. The volumes explore the importance of the Jesus tradition within and outside the gospel genre, including early Christian theologians, writers like the Apostolic Fathers, and modifications to the gospel genre such as the Diatesseron, and incorporate evidence from material and visual culture, such as pictographic representations of Jesus in the staurogram and Alexamenos graffito, and sarcophagi carvings. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 3 vols • c. 1,536 pages HB Pack 9780567000194 • £450.00 / $545.00 Special introductory price of £410.00 / $480.00 valid for three months after publication 15 bw illus T&T Clark
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T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism
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Edited by Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany and Daniel M. Gurtner, Southern Seminary, USA Over 600 scholarly articles split into four parts over two volumes examine the numerous texts and artefacts related to Judaism in the Second Temple Period. Part I locates the discipline in relation to other relevant fields, with a history of research in the area; Part II gives an overview of respective contexts within the framework of historical chronology; Part III focuses on literature and key texts of the period; and Part IV addresses specific topics, including places, practices, figures and artefacts. UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 2 vols • c. 1,200 pages HB Pack 9780567661449 • £320.00 / $440.00 Special introductory price of £295.00 / $400.00 192 bw & 16 colour illus T&T Clark
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